Comparative Grammar and Grammatical Theory

A Construction-Based Study of Morphosyntax

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by Farrell Acherman and Irina Nikolaeva

CSLI Publications

Due/Published August 2003, 200 pages, paper

ISBN 1575864568

This book broadens the scope of Eurasian language research, providing a cross-linguistic description and construction-based treatment of a neglected subtype of prenominal relative clause construction. Documenting these constructions contributes to a comprehensive taxonomy of relative clause types, while their particular properties present instructive challenges to linguistic theory. The authors develop a construction-based proposal using default multiple inheritance hierarchy architecture, arguing that these data contribute to the growing evidence for the need to posit constructions as explanatory concepts in grammatical theory.