Complex Predicates : Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Event Structure
Mengistu. Amberber
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (332 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Complex predicate formation; 3 The light verb jungle: still hacking away; 4 Events and serial verb constructions; 5 Cotemporal serial verb constructions White Hmong; 6 Activity incorporates in some Athabaskan languages; 7 Warlpiri verbs of change and causation: the thematic core; Appendix 1: Warlpiri inflectional paradigms by conjugation class; Appendix 2: Sample of complex verbs; 8 Complex predicates in Wambaya: detaching predicate composition from syntactic structure. - 9 Compound verbs and ideophones in Wolaitta revisited10 The structure of the light verb construction in Amharic; INDEX. - 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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| ISBN | 9780521886673. - 9781107672512
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