Building Meaning in Context by Hannah Gibson PAPERBACK 9781119532255

Building Meaning in Context\nby Hannah Gibson\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Hannah Gibson\nTitle: Building Meaning in Context\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Grammar, syntax and morphology\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781119532255\nISBN-10: 1119532256\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nBuilding Meaning in Context: A Dynamic Approach to Bantu Clause Structure uses the tools of the Dynamic Syntax framework to explore morphosyntactic phenomena in a number of Bantu languages.\n\n--Examines word order alternations, inversion constructions and negation in Bantu, showing the incremental nature of the build-up of meaning in context \n--Highlights cross-linguistic parallels, drawing on data from Japanese, Korean, Romance languages and varieties of Greek \n--Offe.