The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu - Couverture souple

Butt, Miriam

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1881526585 ISBN 13 : 9781881526582

Editeur : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion, 1995

Synopsis

Complex predicates in a number of diverse languages present an interesting problem for formal linguistics as their overall semantics cannot be placed into a simple one-to-one correspondence with the syntactic or morphological pieces which form the complex predicate. A central issue in the investigation of complex predicates thus is the interaction between syntax and semantics.

This book takes a detailed look at two differing complex predicates in the South Asian language Urdu. The Urdu permissive in particular brings into focus the problem of the syntax-semantics mismatch. An examination of the syntactic properties of this complex predicate shows that it is formed by the combination of two semantic heads, but that this combination is not mirrored in the syntax in terms of any kind of syntactic or lexical incorporation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Miriam Butt is professor for general and computational linguistics at the University of Konstanz.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1881526585
• ISBN 13: 9781881526582
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 246
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible