The Typology of Adjectival Predication
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The Typology of Adjectival Predication

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The Typology of Adjectival Predication

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9783110149890
eBook ISBN
9783110813586
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Abbreviations
  3. Part One: General background
  4. 1. Introduction
  5. 1.1. General observations
  6. 1.2. Two perspectives on adjectival encoding in language
  7. 1.3. Prototypical adjectivals
  8. 1.4. Outline of the following chapters
  9. 2. Adjectival encoding in language: The standard approach
  10. 2.1. Introduction
  11. 2.2. Adjectives, adjectival Nouns and adjectival Verbs: Some observations
  12. 2.3. The problematic word class status of adjectivals
  13. 3. Adjectival encoding in language: Nouniness and verbiness
  14. 3.1. “Nouny” and “verby” adjectivals
  15. 3.2. Explaining the nouny-verby split
  16. 3.3. The perspective of the present study
  17. Part Two: A typology of predicative adjectival constructions
  18. 4. Preliminaries
  19. 4.1. The language sample
  20. 4.2. The typological basis
  21. 4.3. The construction of the typology
  22. 5. Nouny adjectivals in type-A languages
  23. 5.1. Criteria for nouniness
  24. 5.2. The use of an overt copula in adjectival and nominal predicates
  25. 5.3. Zero marking in adjectival and nominal predicates
  26. 5.4. A peculiar manifestation of nouniness: “Possessive” constructions
  27. 6. Verby adjectivals in type-A languages
  28. 6.1. Criteria for verbiness
  29. 6.2. Person marking in adjectival and verbal predicates
  30. 6.3. Zero marking in adjectival and verbal predicates
  31. 7. Adjectival predication in type-B languages
  32. 7.1. Introduction
  33. 7.2. Person marking languages
  34. 7.3. Copula languages
  35. 7.4. Zero marking languages
  36. Part Three: Towards an explanation of the nouny-verby split
  37. 8. The Tense Hypothesis
  38. 8.1. Introduction
  39. 8.2. Summarizing the major results of the typological investigation
  40. 8.3. The Tensedness Parameter
  41. 8.4. The Tense Hypothesis
  42. 8.5. Nouny languages
  43. 8.6. Verby languages
  44. 8.7. Mixed languages
  45. 8.8. Type-B languages
  46. 8.9. Concluding observations
  47. Notes
  48. Appendix A: Alphabetical listing of the sample
  49. Appendix B: Genetic and areal stratification of the sample
  50. References
  51. Index of languages
  52. Index of names
  53. Index of subjects

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