The Cambridge Handbook of Role and Reference Grammar
$157.21
- Paperback
1012 pages
- Release Date
28 August 2025
Summary
Decoding Language: A Comprehensive Guide to Role and Reference Grammar
Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) offers a unique perspective on language, highlighting the dynamic interaction between discourse, semantics, and syntax in shaping linguistic structures. This Handbook, crafted by a team of leading experts, provides a definitive overview of RRG, designed for both newcomers and seasoned linguists.
Key Features:
- Step-by-Step Introduction…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781107571440 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1107571448 |
| Series: | Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics |
| Author: | Delia Bentley, Ricardo Mairal Usón, Wataru Nakamura, Robert D. Van Valin, Jr |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1012 |
| Release Date: | 28 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
About The Author
Delia Bentley
Delia Bentley is Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Split intransitivity in Italian (Mouton, 2006) and a co-author of Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy (OUP, 2015).
Ricardo Mairal-Usón is Full Professor of Linguistics at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia since 2002. He has co-authored or co-edited a number of books including Nuevas perspectivas en Gramática Funcional (Ariel, 1999), which was awarded the Nation Research Price AEDEAN 1999, and Linguistic Universals (with Gil, CUP, 2006).
Wataru Nakamura is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Tohoku University. He is the editor of New Perspectives in Role and Reference Grammar (CSP, 2011) and the co-editor of Objectivization and Subjectivization: Typology of Voice Systems (National Museum of Ethnology, 2012).
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. is Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He is the co-author of Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar (CUP, 1984), the co-author of Syntax (CUP, 1997), and the author of Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface (CUP, 2005).
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