Complex Predicates

Herausgeber: Amberber, Mengistu; Harvey, Mark; Baker, Brett

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides a fresh perspective on the cross-linguistic properties of complex predicates, considering how additional words contribute to the overall meaning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780521886673
• ISBN-10: 0521886678
• Artikelnr.: 28522303

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: complex predicates Mengistu Amberber, Brett Baker and Mark Harvey
2. Complex predicate formation Brett Baker and Mark Harvey
3. The light verb jungle: still hacking away Miriam Butt
4. Events and serial verb constructions William A. Foley
5. Cotemporal serial verb constructions in White Hmong Nerida Jarkey
6. Activity incorporates in some Athabaskan languages Keren Rice
7. Warlpiri verbs of change and causation: the thematic core Mary Laughren
8. Complex predicates in Wambaya: detaching predicate composition from syntactic structure Rachel Nordlinger
9. Compound verbs and ideophones in Wolaitta revisited Azeb Amha
10. The structure of the light verb construction in Amharic Mengistu Amberber
Author index
Language index
Subject index.