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Secondary predication and adverbial modification : the typology of depictives / edited by Nikolaus P. Himmelmann and Eva Schultze-Berndt.
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- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb phrase.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Adverbials.
- Semantics.
- Typology (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- "This book approaches depictive secondary predication from a crosslinguistic perspective. It maps out all the phenomena and brings together critical surveys and new contributions on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 Issues in the syntax and semantics of participant-oriented adjuncts: an introduction / Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Eva Schultze-Berndt 1
- 2 Depictives in English and Warlpiri / Jane Simpson 69
- 3 Adverbials and depictives as restrictors / Thomas Muller-Bardey 107
- 4 Depictive agreement and the development of a depictive marker in Swiss German dialects / Claudia Bucheli Berger 141
- 5 Quantifying depictive secondary predicates in Australian languages / William B. McGregor 173
- 6 Depictives in Kartvelian / Winfried Boeder 201
- 7 On depictive secondary predicates in Laz / Silvia Kutscher, N. Sevim Genc 237
- 8 Participant agreement in Panoan / Pilar M. Valenzuela 259
- 9 Secondary predicates and adverbials in Nilotic and Omotic: a typological comparison / Azeb Amha, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal 299
- 10 Asyndetic subordination and deverbal depictive expressions in Shona / Tom Guldemann 323
- 11 Forms of secondary predication in serializing languages: on depictives in Ewe / Felix K. Ameka 355
- 12 Depictive and other secondary predication in Lao / Nicholas J. Enfield 379
- 13 A semantic map for depictive adjectivals / Johan van der Auwera, Andrej Malchukov 393.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-440) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0199272263
- 9780199272266
- OCLC:
- 56733268
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