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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790719803321

Autore

Wetzer Harrie <1956->

Titolo

The typology of adjectival predication / / by Harrie Wetzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1996

ISBN

3-11-081358-0

Edizione

[Reprint 2013]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (412 p.)

Collana

Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ; ; 17

Empirical approaches to language typology ; ; 17

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Adjectivals

Grammar, Comparative and general - Nominals

Grammar, Comparative and general - Verbals

Typology (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Nijmegen, 1995).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-382) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgements / Wetzer, Harrie -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Part One. General background -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Adjectival encoding in language: The standard approach -- Chapter 3. Adjectival encoding in language: Nouniness and verbiness -- Part Two. A typology of predicative adjectival constructions -- Chapter 4. Preliminaries -- Chapter 5. Nouny adjectivale in type-Α languages -- Chapter 6. Verby adjectivale in type-Α languages -- Chapter 7. Adjectival predication in type-B languages -- Part Three. Towards an explanation of the nouny-verby split -- Chapter 8. The Tense Hypothesis -- Notes -- Appendix A: Alphabetical listing of the sample -- Appendix Β. Genetic and areal stratification of the sample -- References -- Index of languages -- Index of names -- Index of subjects