Secondary predication and adverbial modification : the typology of depictives /

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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Gespeichert in:
Hauptverfasser:
Himmelmann, Nikolaus, Schultze-Berndt, Eva.
Weitere Verfasser:
Himmelmann, Nikolaus, Schultze-Berndt, Eva
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
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
Umfang:
1 online resource (475 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-440) and index.
ISBN:
0-19-153411-0
1-280-75243-2
1-4294-4012-0
0-19-920434-9
0-19-151402-0
Schlagworte:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb phrase.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Adverbials.
Semantics.
Typology (Linguistics)
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