Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification: The Typology of Depictives - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199204349 ISBN 13: 9780199204342

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2006

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Nikolaus P. Himmelmann is Professor of Linguistics at the Ruhr-University, Bochum. His research interests include typology and grammaticalization theory, prosody, and grammar, as well as language documentation and description. He is the author of a study of the typology and grammaticalization of demonstratives and articles (Tübingen: Niemeyer) and co-editor of The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar (London: Routledge). He has done fieldwork in the Philippines, Sulawesi, and East Timor and published widely on Austronesian grammar, including the nature of lexical and syntactic categories and voice.

Eva Schultze-Berndt is Professor of Linguistics at the Karl Franzens University, Graz. Her research interests include typology, grammar of spoken language, lexical semantics, language contact, and language documentation and description. She has published on complex and secondary predication, verb semantics, word classes, and construction-based approaches to grammar, from a typological perspective and with a focus on the Northern Australian language Jaminjung based on her own fieldwork.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199204349
• ISBN 13: 9780199204342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Himmelmann Nikolaus P.