Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification: The Typology of Depictives - Couverture souple

 
9780199204342: Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification: The Typology of Depictives

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Nikolaus P. Himmelmann is Professor of Linguistics at the Ruhr-University, Bochum. His research interests include typology and grammaticalization theory, prosody, and grammar, as well as language documentation and description. He is the author of a study of the typology and grammaticalization of demonstratives and articles (Tübingen: Niemeyer) and co-editor of The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar (London: Routledge). He has done fieldwork in the Philippines, Sulawesi, and East Timor and published widely on Austronesian grammar, including the nature of lexical and syntactic categories and voice.

Eva Schultze-Berndt is Professor of Linguistics at the Karl Franzens University, Graz. Her research interests include typology, grammar of spoken language, lexical semantics, language contact, and language documentation and description. She has published on complex and secondary predication, verb semantics, word classes, and construction-based approaches to grammar, from a typological perspective and with a focus on the Northern Australian language Jaminjung based on her own fieldwork.




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9780199272266: Secondary Predication And Adverbial Modification: The Typology Of Depictives

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0199272263 ISBN 13 :  9780199272266
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2005
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