Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification [[electronic resource] ] : The Typology of Depictives

• Autore: Schultze-Berndt Eva F
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (475 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Electronic books. -- local; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Adverbials; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase; Semantics; Typology (Linguistics); Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb phrase; Grammar, Comparative and general - Adverbials; Philology & Linguistics; Languages & Literatures
• Altri autori: HimmelmannNikolaus P
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W; Y; Index of terms; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. - ;Depictive secondary predicates, such as 'raw' in 'George ate the fish raw', are central to current issues in syntactic and semantic theory - in particular predication theory, phrase structure theories, issues of control and grammatical relations, and verbal aspect. This is the first book to appro
• Titolo autorizzato: Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification
• ISBN: 0-19-153411-0; 1-280-75243-2; 1-4294-4012-0; 0-19-920434-9; 0-19-151402-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792230203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II