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Non Verbal Predication
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Author : Kees Hengeveld
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-05-02
Non Verbal Predication written by Kees Hengeveld and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-02 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Non-Verbal Predication : Theory, Typology, Diachrony.
Non Verbal Predication In Ancient Egyptian
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Author : Antonio Loprieno
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-10-23
Non Verbal Predication In Ancient Egyptian written by Antonio Loprieno and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Egyptian language, with its written documentation spreading from the Early Bronze Age (Ancient Egyptian) to Christian times (Coptic), has rarely been the object of typological studies, grammatical analysis mainly serving philological purposes. This volume offers now a detailed analysis and a diachronic discussion of the non-verbal patterns of the Egyptian language, from the Pyramid Texts (Earlier Egyptian) to Coptic (Later Egyptian), based on an extensive use of data, especially for later phases. By providing a narrative contextualisation and a linguistic glossing of all examples, it addresses the needs not only of students of Egyptian and Coptic, but also of a linguistic readership. After an introduction into the basic typological features of Egyptian, the main book chapters address morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of the three non-verbal sentence types documented throughout the history of this language: the adverbial sentence, the nominal sentence and the adjectival sentence. These patterns also appear in a variety of clausal environments and can be embedded in verbal constructions. This book provides an ideal introduction into the study of Egyptian historical grammar and an indispensable companion for philological reading.
Nonverbal Predication
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Author : Isabelle Roy (Writer on linguistics)
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2013-04-25
Nonverbal Predication written by Isabelle Roy (Writer on linguistics) and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book concerns the interpretation and structure of non-verbal predicates in copular sentences (i.e. sentences with the verb 'be'). The author provides a unifying analysis based on a ternary distinction between defining/characterizing/situation-descriptive predicates.
Language Formation By Adults
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Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-09-13
Language Formation By Adults written by Zygmunt Frajzyngier and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Languages formed by adults without formal instruction, a product of language contact, likely replicate the emergence of grammars in hereditary languages. The phenomena attested in such languages provide new insights into how grammatical forms and meanings emerge in languages.
Nonverbal Predication In Amazonian Languages
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Author : Simon E. Overall
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2018-08-15
Nonverbal Predication In Amazonian Languages written by Simon E. Overall and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume explores typological variation within nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages. Using abundant data, generally from original and extensive fieldwork on under-described languages, it presents a far more detailed picture of nonverbal predication constructions than previously published grammatical descriptions. On the one hand, it addresses the fact that current typologies of nonverbal predication are less developed than those of verbal predication; on the other, it provides a wealth of new data and analyses of Amazonian languages, which are still poorly represented in existing typologies. Several contributions offer historical insights, either reconstructing the sources of innovative nonverbal predicate constructions, or describing diachronic pathways by which constructions used for nonverbal predication spread to other functions in the grammar. The introduction provides a modern typological overview, and also proposes a new diachronic typology to explain how distinct types of nonverbal predication arise.
The Syntax Of Non Verbal Predication In Amharic And Geez
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Author : Mulusew Asratie Wondem
language : en
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Release Date : 2015
The Syntax Of Non Verbal Predication In Amharic And Geez written by Mulusew Asratie Wondem and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
This dissertation is about non-verbal predication - i.e., propositions where the main predicate is an NP, an AP or a PP - in two Ethiopian Semitic languages, Amharic and Geez. Concentrating on copular clauses, I examine several phenomena such as agreement, predicate selection, case-marking system, presence and absence of a copula as well as verbal and non-verbal copulas. 0I provide a syntactic analysis for Amharic and Geez copular clauses that explains these variations. The difference between the copular elements in terms of their agreement system and type of predicate they show up with is argued to be due to the fact that they are of different types of verbs - personal and impersonal on the one hand and subject-raising and possessor-raising on the other hand - suggesting the presence of more than one BE in these languages. Regarding, the verbal/non-verbal distinction between Geez copular elements, it is argued that the latter are used for inherent predication as opposed to the former, which indicate tense and aspect. Regarding copulaless clauses in Geez, it is claimed that they are also full clauses. To analyze case-marking of NP and APs, I argue nominative should be treated as the absence of case, whereas accusative is assignedby a functional head in the small clause, whose semantic contribution is to indicate eventivity.
Non Verbal Predication In Ancient Egyptian
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Author : Antonio Loprieno
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-10-23
Non Verbal Predication In Ancient Egyptian written by Antonio Loprieno and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Egyptian language, with its written documentation spreading from the Early Bronze Age (Ancient Egyptian) to Christian times (Coptic), has rarely been the object of typological studies, grammatical analysis mainly serving philological purposes. This volume offers now a detailed analysis and a diachronic discussion of the non-verbal patterns of the Egyptian language, from the Pyramid Texts (Earlier Egyptian) to Coptic (Later Egyptian), based on an extensive use of data, especially for later phases. By providing a narrative contextualisation and a linguistic glossing of all examples, it addresses the needs not only of students of Egyptian and Coptic, but also of a linguistic readership. After an introduction into the basic typological features of Egyptian, the main book chapters address morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of the three non-verbal sentence types documented throughout the history of this language: the adverbial sentence, the nominal sentence and the adjectival sentence. These patterns also appear in a variety of clausal environments and can be embedded in verbal constructions. This book provides an ideal introduction into the study of Egyptian historical grammar and an indispensable companion for philological reading.
Nonverbal Predication
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Author : Isabelle Roy
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-04-25
Nonverbal Predication written by Isabelle Roy and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book considers the syntax and semantics of non-verbal predicates (i.e., nominal, adjectival and prepositional predicates) in copular sentences. Isabelle Roy explores how a single structure for predication can account for the different interpretations of non-verbal predicates. The book departs from earlier studies by arguing in favor of a ternary distinction between defining / characterizing / situation-descriptive predicates rather than the more common stage-level/individual distinction. The distinction is based on two semantic criteria, namely maximality (i.e., whether the predicate describes an eventuality that has spatio-temporal properties or not) and density (i.e. whether the spatio-temporal properties are perceived as atomic or not). The author argues in favor of a strong correlation between the semantics properties of predicates and their internal syntactic structure. Her analysis accounts for seemingly unrelated cross-linguistic data: the indefinite article in French, the distribution of the two copulas 'ser'/'estar' in Spanish, and case marking on Russian predicates.
Intransitive Predication
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Author : Leon Stassen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2003
Intransitive Predication written by Leon Stassen and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Basing his analysis on a wide sample of languages, Stassen investigates cross-linguistic variation in one of the core domains of all natural languages - 'cognitive space' - the topography of which is the same for all languages.
A Grammar Of Makary Kotoko
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Author : Sean Allison
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-06-15
A Grammar Of Makary Kotoko written by Sean Allison and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In A Grammar of Makary Kotoko, Sean Allison provides a thorough description of Makary Kotoko - a Chadic language of Cameroon, framing the discussion within R.M.W. Dixon’s functional/typological approach known as Basic Linguistic Theory.