Intransitive PredicationClarendon Press, 1997 - 771 páginas Intransitive Predication constitutes a major contribution to the study of typological linguistics and theoretical linguistics in general. Basing his analysis on a sample of 410 languages, Leon Stassen investigates cross-linguistic variation in one of the core domains of all natural languages. The author views this domain as a `cognitive space', the topography of which is the same for all languages. It is assumed to consist of four subdomains, which correspond to a four-way distinction between the semantic classes of event predicates, property predicates, class predicates, and locational predicates. Leon Stassen offers a typology of the structural manifestations of this domain, in terms of the nature and number of the formal strategies used in its encoding. He discusses a number of abstract principles which can be employed in explaining the cross-linguistic variation embodied by the typology. In the final chapter, he brings together the research results in a universally applicable model, which can be read as a `flow chart' for the encoding of intransitive predications in different language types. |
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The Verbal and the Locational Strategy | 24 |
The Nominal Strategy | 62 |
The Typology of Intransitive Predication | 121 |
AdjectiveSwitching | 155 |
Nominal and Locational Switching | 207 |
VerbSwitching | 242 |
Multiple Switching and Complex Cases | 305 |
Adjectives and the Tensedness Parameter | 343 |
NonTensed Languages | 422 |
Problematic Cases | 492 |
Evaluation and Explanation | 568 |
Conclusion | 611 |
Appendices | 667 |
Alphabetical Listing of the Sample | 709 |
References | 733 |
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12 V L L L Past 3SG.MASC 9 V C C C Present A-languages adjectival Afro-Asiatic Altaic aorist aspect aspectual Austro-Asiatic Austronesian Austronesian languages auxiliary Classical Nahuatl construction contrast cross-linguistic distinction domain encoding of predicative encoding strategy formal identity statements imperfective implicature indicates Indo-European intransitive predication languages lexical linguistic locational predicates locational strategy M-switching marked morphological Munda languages Mundari N-L-switching Niger-Kordofanian Nilo-Saharan nominal encoding nominal strategy non-tensed nonpast nonverbal encoding nonverbal predicate Northern nouny Parameter particle pattern perfect perfective aspect periphrastic predicate categories predicate encoding predicate locationals predicate nominals predicative adjectives predicative verbs prefix PRES Present B 12 present tense property-concept words prototypical sample Scottish Gaelic Section Selkup semantic sentences split stative stem stratification suffix support item support verb switch temporal tense-aspect tensedness universals Tigak Turkic typological unmarked Uto-Aztecan V V CL verb forms verbal encoding verbal forms verbal strategy verbal system verby zero copula zero encoding