Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification: The Typology of Depictives

by Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (Editor), Eva F. Schultze-Berndt (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199204342
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/23/2006
Pages:	476
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Nikolaus P. Himmelmann is Professor of Linguistics at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His research interests include typology and grammaticisation theory, prosody, and grammar as well as language documentation and description. He is the author of an in-depth study of the typology and grammaticalization of demonstratives and articles (Tübingen: Niemeyer) and co-editor of The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar (London: Routledge). He has done fieldwork in the Philippines, Sulawesi and East Timor and published widely on core issues in Austronesian grammar, including the nature of lexical and syntactic categories and voice.
Eva Schultze-Berndt is Professor of Linguistics at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. Her research interests include typology, grammar of spoken language, lexical semantics, language contact, and language documentation and description. She has published on complex and secondary predication, verb semantics, word classes, and construction-based approaches to grammar, from a typological perspective and with a focus on the Northern Australian language Jaminjung based on her own fieldwork.

Table of Contents

1. Issues in the Syntax and Semantics of Participant-oriented Adjuncts: an introduction, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Eva Schultze-Berndt2. Depictives in English and Warlpiri, Jane Simpson3. Adverbials and Depictives as Restrictors, Thomas Muller-Bradey4. Depictive Agreement and the Development of a Depictive Marker in Swiss German Dialects, Claudia Bucheli Berger5. Quantifying Depictive Secondary Predicates in Australian Languages, William B. McGregor6. Depictives in Kartvelian, Winfried Boeder7. On Depictive Secondary Predicates in Laz, Silvia Kutscher & N. Sevim Genc8. Participant Agreement in Panoan, Pilar M. Valenzuela9. Secondary Predicates and Adverbials in Nilotic and Omotic: A Typological Comparison, Azeb Amha & Gerrit J. Dimmendaal10. Asyndetic Subordination and Deverbal Depictive Expressions in Shona, Tom Guldemann11. Forms of Secondary Predication n Serialising Languages: On Depictives in Ewe, Felix K. Ameka12. Depictive and Other Secondary Predication in Loa, Nicholas J. Enfield13. A Semantic Map for Depictive Adjectivals, Johan van der Auwera & Andrej MalchukovReferencesIndex of TermsIndex of Languages