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Non-verbal Predication in the World's Languages: A Typological Survey Volume 2: Africa, Austronesia, Papunesia, Australia

By Pier Marco Bertinetto (Editor), Luca Ciucci (Editor), Denis Creissels (Editor)
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By Pier Marco Bertinetto (Editor), Luca Ciucci (Editor), Denis Creissels (Editor)
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The notion of predication is usually associated with the lexical class of verbs. However, the predicate function may also be expressed by Noun / Adjective / Adverb / Quantifier Phrases:

a. John is a doctor. b. The man is old. c. The boys are in the garden. d. Sam's friends are many.

Natural languages do, with respect to non-verbal predication, what they are expected to do in any compartment of grammar: they sharply diverge in their behavior.
This book offers a wide typological overview of ...

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