The Typology of Adjectival Predication / / Harrie Wetzer.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
VerfasserIn:
MitwirkendeR:
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]
©1996
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2013
Language:English
Series:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 17
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (398 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Part One. General background
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Adjectival encoding in language: The standard approach
  • Chapter 3. Adjectival encoding in language: Nouniness and verbiness
  • Part Two. A typology of predicative adjectival constructions
  • Chapter 4. Preliminaries
  • Chapter 5. Nouny adjectivale in type-Α languages
  • Chapter 6. Verby adjectivale in type-Α languages
  • Chapter 7. Adjectival predication in type-B languages
  • Part Three. Towards an explanation of the nouny-verby split
  • Chapter 8. The Tense Hypothesis
  • Notes
  • Appendix A: Alphabetical listing of the sample
  • Appendix Β. Genetic and areal stratification of the sample
  • References
  • Index of languages
  • Index of names
  • Index of subjects