Non-verbal Predication in the World’s Languages
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Edited by:
Pier Marco Bertinetto
About this book
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 how languages deal with non-verbal predication (henceforth: NVP). After the pioneering works by Hengeveld (1992) and Stassen (1997), no other work has attempted to provide a comprehensive overview of this pervasive syntactic phenomenon. Hence, the need for this book.
The introductory chapter highlights the main features to be considered:
- the lexical and morphosyntactic nature of the predicate.
- the morphological expression of NVP.
- the semantic types of NVP.
The bulk of the book consists of a collection of papers, written by well-known specialists, targeting different languages or language families, thus offering a rich array of typological data.
This book will be of interest to typologists, syntacticians of any theoretical creed, and students of linguistics at large.
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Frontmatter
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List of the Authors
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Crucial issues in non-verbal predication: A questionnaire
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22 Non-verbal predication in Maltese
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23 Non-verbal predication in Nilotic
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24 Non-verbal predication in Cushitic
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25 Non-verbal predication in Mandinka and other Mande languages
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26 Non-verbal predication in Cuwabo (Bantu)
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27 Non-verbal predication in Ju
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28 Non-verbal predicates in Oceanic languages
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29 Non-verbal predication in Formosan languages
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30 Non-verbal predication in three families of Papunesia: Teiwa, Tidore and Mian
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31 Non-verbal predication in Nungon
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32 Non-verbal predication in Ngumpin-Yapa languages (Australia)
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33 Non-verbal predication: Results and perspectives
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Subject index
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Language index
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