Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification The Typology of Depictives

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Pub. Date: 2006-11-23
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Summary

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.

Author Biography


Nikolaus P. Himmelmann is Professor of Linguistics at the Ruhr-Universitat 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 (Tubingen: 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-Universitat 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

Preface and chapter summaries vii
Acknowledgements xv
The contributors xvi
Abbreviations and glossing conventions xx
1 Issues in the syntax and semantics of participant-oriented adjuncts: an introduction
1
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann and Eva Schultze-Berndt
2 Depictives in English and Warlpiri
69
Jane Simpson
3 Adverbials and depictives as restrictors
107
Thomas Müller-Bardey
4 Depictive agreement and the development of a depictive marker in Swiss German dialects
141
Claudia Bucheli Berger
5 Quantifying depictive secondary predicates in Australian languages
173
William B. McGregor
6 Depictives in Kartvelian
201
Winfried Boeder
7 On depictive secondary predicates in Laz
237
Silvia Kutscher and N. Sevim Genç
8 Participant agreement in Panoan
259
Pilar M. Valenzuela
9 Secondary predicates and adverbials in Nilotic and Omotic: a typological comparison
299
Azeb Amha and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
10 Asyndetic subordination and deverbal depictive expressions in Shona 323
Tom Güldemann
11 Forms of secondary predication in serializing languages: on depictives in Ewe 355
Felix K. Ameka
12 Depictive and other secondary predication in Lao 379
Nicholas J. Enfield
13 A semantic map for depictive adjectivals 393
Johan van der Auwera and Andrej Malchukov
References 423
Index of languages 441
Index of terms 443

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