Participles : A Typological Study / Ksenia Shagal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shagal, Ksenia, Author.

Series:

Empirical approaches to language typology ; Volume 61.

Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ; 61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 346 pages) : illustrations, map.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The book is the first large-scale typological study of participles, based on data from more than 100 languages. Its main aim is to model the diversity of non-finite verb forms involved in adnominal modification. Participles are examined with respect to several morphological and syntactic parameters, and are shown to be a versatile cross-linguistic category. The book is of interest to language typologists and descriptive linguists.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of figures

List of tables

Abbreviations and glossing conventions

1. Introduction

2. Defining participles

3. Participial orientation

4. Desententialization and nominalization

5. Morphological desententialization of participial relative clauses

6. Participant expression in participial relative clauses

7. Participial systems

Appendix 1. Languages investigated in the study

Appendix 2. Properties of the languages in the core sample

Appendix 3. Forms considered in the study

References

Index of subjects

Index of languages

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

Current Copyright Fee: GBP17.50 0.

ISBN:

9783110629934

3110629933

9783110633382

3110633388

OCLC:

1129221000