The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu (Dissertations in Linguistics) - Hardcover

Butt, Miriam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1881526593 ISBN 13: 9781881526599

Publisher: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1995

Synopsis

This book takes a detailed look at two differing complex predicates in the South Asian language Urdu. The Urdu permissive in particular brings into focus the problem of the syntax-semantics mismatch. An examination of the syntactic properties of this complex predicate shows that it is formed by the combination of two semantic heads, but that this combination is not mirrored in the syntax in terms of any kind of syntactic or lexical incorporation.

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About the Author

Miriam Butt is professor for general and computational linguistics at the University of Konstanz.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1881526593
• ISBN 13: 9781881526599
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 264