Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. (1973). First Edition. Hardcover. 0262110490 . Previous owner's name. Some fading to dust-jacket spine, and rubbing at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First printing. xi, [1], 410, [2 (blank)] pages. Brown cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 227 x 150mm. Text in English. "This book reveals a wide variety of semantic and syntactic factors (some of them not vrey well known to linguists working on English) that control the usage of certain grammatical patterns. It also shows what kinds of sentences the linguist working on a nonnative language should check with native speakers of the language to prove or disprove his initial hypothesis." - from dust-jacket blurb. Contents: Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Particles; Verbs; Temporal and Conditional Clauses; Nominal and Adjectival Clauses; Deictics - Yes, No, and Pronouns; Case Marking and Word Order; References; Index. Series: Current Studies in Linguistics, Number 3. .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 22317
Title: The Structure of the Japanese Language
Author: Kuno, Susumu
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0262110490
ISBN 13: 9780262110495
Publisher: The MIT Press
Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
Date Published: (1973)
Keywords: 0262110490

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