Complex Predicates: Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Event Structure

Amberber, Mengistu (Editor)/ Baker, Brett (Editor)/ Harvey, Mark (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0521886678 / ISBN 13: 9780521886673

Editore: Cambridge Univ Pr, 2010

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• Titolo: Complex Predicates: Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Event Structure
• Editore: Cambridge Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521886678
• ISBN 13: 9780521886673
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Brand New
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Riassunto

Provides a fresh perspective on the cross-linguistic properties of complex predicates, considering how additional words contribute to the overall meaning.

Informazioni sugli autori

Mengistu Amberber is a senior lecturer in Linguistics at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). He is the co-editor (with P. Collins) of Language Universals and Variation (2002), and (with H. de Hoop) Competition and Variation in Natural Languages: The Case for Case (2005), and the editor of The Language of Memory in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective (2007).

Brett Baker is a senior lecturer in Linguistics at the University of New England (Armidale, Australia). He is the author of Word Structure in Ngalakgan (2008), and the co-editor (with Ilana Mushin) of Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages (2008).

Mark Harvey is a senior lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Newcastle (Australia). His previous publications include Proto Mirndi: A Discontinous Language Family in Northern Australia (2008), A Grammar of Gaagudju, A Language of the Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory (2002) and A Grammar of Limilngan: A Language of the Mary River Region, Northern Territory (2001).