Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification: The Typology of DepictivesNikolaus Himmelmann, Eva Schultze-Berndt 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. |
Contents
Issues in the syntax and semantics of participantoriented adjuncts an introduction | 1 |
Depictives in English and Warlpiri | 69 |
Adverbials and depictives as restrictors | 107 |
Depictive agreement and the development of a depictive marker in Swiss German dialects | 141 |
Quantifying depictive secondary predicates in Australian languages | 173 |
Depictives in Kartvelian | 201 |
On depictive secondary predicates in Laz | 237 |
Participant agreement in Panoan | 259 |
Secondary predicates and adverbials in Nilotic and Omotic a typological comparison | 299 |
Asyndetic subordination and deverbal depictive expressions in Shona | 323 |
Forms of secondary predication in serializing languages on depictives in Ewe | 355 |
Depictive and other secondary predication in Lao | 379 |
A semantic map for depictive adjectivals | 393 |
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Common terms and phrases
adjectival adjectives adjunct constructions adjunct types adposition adverbial agreement argument Arrernte attributive Australian languages Boeder case-marking circumstantials clitic condition context controller converb copula crosslinguistic dative depictive constructions depictive expressions depictive marker depictive secondary predicates depictives predicated discussed distinction domain drunk emphatic pronouns encoded English event event-oriented example expression types focus formal free adjuncts free-subject dependent predicates function Georgian Geuder Gooniyandi grammatical Güldemann Himmelmann 2004 ideophones illustrated interpretation intonation unit intransitive involving Jaminjung lexical linguistic locative main clause main predicate main verb manner adverbs marking Martuthunira modifiers morpheme morphology morphosyntactic Nilotic nominal noun object Omotic languages Panoan languages participant orientation participant-oriented adjuncts past participle phrase position prosodic quantifying reference relation restricted S-orientation S/he same-subject Schultze-Berndt and Himmelmann semantic map sentence serial verb construction Shona simultaneous strategy structure suffix Svan SVCs Swiss German syntactic temporal transitive verb typology Valenzuela volume Warlpiri
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Page xx - If one formative represents two or more morphosyntactic categories, a period is used to separate the categories in the gloss (eg RLS.UG).