Intransitive Predication

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

Av Leon Stassen, The Netherlands) Stassen, Leon (Senior Lecturer, Department of General Linguistics, Senior Lecturer, Department of General Linguistics, The Catholic University of Nijmegen

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This book investigates cross-linguistic variation in one of the core domains of all natural languages. Leon Stassen views this domain as a 'cognitive space', the topography of which is the same for all languages. It is assumed to consist of four subdomains, which correspond to a four-way distinction between the semantic classes of event predicates, property predicates, class predicates, and locational predicates. The book offers a typology of the structural manifestations of this domain, in terms of the nature and number of the formal strategies used in its encoding. The author disusses a number of abstract principles which can be employed in explaining the cross-linguistic variation emodied by the typology. In the final chapter he brings together the research results in a universally applicable model, which can be read as a 'flow-chart' for the encoding of intransitive predications in different language types.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-12-04
Mått156 x 233 x 39 mm
Vikt1 095 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory
Antal sidor788
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199258932

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PART 1: THE TYPOLOGY ; 1. Introduction ; 2. The Verbal and the Locational Strategy ; 3. The Nominal Strategy ; 4. The Typology of Intransitive Predication ; PART 2: SWITCHING ; 5. Adjective-Switching ; 6. Nominal and Locational Switching ; 7. Verb-Switching ; 8. Multiple Switching and Complex Cases ; PART 3: TENSEDNESS ; 9. Adjectives and the Tensedness Parameter ; 10. Tensed Languages ; 11. Non-Tensed Languages ; 12. Problematic Cases ; 13. Evaluation and Explanation ; PART 4: THE MODEL ; 14. The Model of Intransitive Predicate Encoding ; 15. Conclusion ; Notes ; Appendices ; References ; Indices

Review from previous edition It is difficult to do justice in a review to a book of this magnitude. The book provides a valuable set of data and convincing arguments to support the typology proposed ... A value of the book is that the proposed typology provides a solid foundation for future empirical investigation. The book is the second in a series on typology. I hope that subsequent volumes in the series will be of such a high quality.