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Secondary predication and adverbial modification : the typology of depictives / edited by Nikolaus P. Himmelmann and Eva Schultze-Berndt.
- Format:
- 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:
- 1 online resource (475 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the first book to approach depictive secondary predication - a hot topic in syntax and semantics research - from a crosslinguistic perspective. It maps out all the relevant phenomena and brings together critical surveys and new contributions on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties. - ;Depictive secondary predicates, such as 'raw' in 'George ate the fish raw', are central to current issues in syntactic and semantic theory - in particular predication theory, phrase structure theories, issues of control and grammatical relations, and verbal aspect. This is the first book to appro
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface and chapter summaries; Acknowledgements; The contributors; Abbreviations and glossing conventions; 1 Issues in the syntax and semantics of participant-oriented adjuncts: an introduction; 2 Depictives in English and Warlpiri; 3 Adverbials and depictives as restrictors; 4 Depictive agreement and the development of a depictive marker in Swiss German dialects; 5 Quantifying depictive secondary predicates in Australian languages; 6 Depictives in Kartvelian; 7 On depictive secondary predicates in Laz; 8 Participant agreement in Panoan
- 9 Secondary predicates and adverbials in Nilotic and Omotic: a typological comparison10 Asyndetic subordination and deverbal depictive expressions in Shona; 11 Forms of secondary predication in serializing languages: on depictives in Ewe; 12 Depictive and other secondary predication in Lao; 13 A semantic map for depictive adjectivals; References; Index of languages; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W; Y; Index of terms; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-440) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-153411-0
- 1-280-75243-2
- 1-4294-4012-0
- 0-19-920434-9
- 0-19-151402-0
- OCLC:
- 437109387
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