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Secondary predication and adverbial modification : the typology of depictives /

"This book approaches depictive secondary predication from a crosslinguistic perspective. It maps out all the phenomena and brings together critical surveys and new contributions on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties"--Provided by publisher

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Himmelmann, Nikolaus, 1959-, Schultze-Berndt, Eva
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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; Index of terms.