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Yes, you can access Meaning and Grammar by Michel Kefer, Johan van der Auwera, Michel Kefer,Johan van der Auwera in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistic Semantics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Languages & Linguistics

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Linguistic Semantics

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Languages & Linguistics

Preface
Contributors
Part I. General considerations
Reflections on the history of the study of universals: the example of the partes orationis
Universals, explanations and pragmatics
Isomorphic, anisomorphic, and heteromorphic universals
Part II. Syntactic categories and constructions
Towards a typology of voice
Non-verbal predicability
Impersonal constructions as a strategy for second-order predication
Polarization as a universal of linguistic organization
Towards a semantic typology of language
A hierarchy of main predicate encoding
On explaining double object constructions
“Nouny” and “verby” adjectivals: a typology of predicative adjectival constructions
Part III. Morphemes and lexical items
Demonstratives and the localist hypothesis
Phraseological universals: theoretical and applied aspects
Scopal quantifiers: some universals of lexical effability
Semantic integrality: a universal semiotic feature of language and perception
Foreground and background: Weinrich against Labov
Lexical universals and universals of grammar
Author index
Language index
Subject index

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