Non-verbal Predication in the World’s Languages: A Typological Survey - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3110736322 ISBN 13 : 9783110736328

Editeur : De Gruyter Mouton, 2025

Synopsis

The notion of predication is usually associated with the lexical class of verbs. However, the predicate function may also be expressed by Noun / Adjective / Adverb / Quantifier Phrases:

a. John is a doctor. b. The man is old. c. The boys are in the garden. d. Sam's friends are many.

Natural languages do, with respect to non-verbal predication, what they are expected to do in any compartment of grammar: they sharply diverge in their behavior.
This book offers a wide typological overview of how languages deal with non-verbal predication (henceforth: NVP). After the pioneering works by Hengeveld (1992) and Stassen (1997), no other work has attempted to provide a comprehensive overview of this pervasive syntactic phenomenon. Hence, the need for this book.
The introductory chapter highlights the main features to be considered:

• the lexical and morphosyntactic nature of the predicate.
• the morphological expression of NVP.
• the semantic types of NVP.

The bulk of the book consists of a collection of papers, written by well-known specialists, targeting different languages or language families, thus offering a rich array of typological data.
This book will be of interest to typologists, syntacticians of any theoretical creed, and students of linguistics at large.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Pier Marco Bertinetto, Pisa, Italy; Luca Ciucci, Passau, Germany; Denis Creissels, Lyon, France.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter Mouton
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3110736322
• ISBN 13: 9783110736328
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 798
• Éditeur: Bertinetto Pier Marco, Ciucci Luca, Creissels Denis
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible