Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification [electronic resource] : The Typology of Depictives
Schultze-Berndt, Eva F.
Himmelmann, Nikolaus P.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2005.
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
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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
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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic books. -- local.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Adverbials.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase.
Semantics.
Typology (Linguistics).
Grammar, Comparative and general
Grammar, Comparative and general
Grammar, Comparative and general
Semantics
Typology (Linguistics)
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