Converbs in Cross-Linguistic Perspective : : Structure and Meaning of Adverbial Verb Forms - Adverbial Participles, Gerunds / / ed. by Ekkehard König, Martin Haspelmath.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Alpatov, Vladimir M.,; Bergelson, Mira B.,; Bisang, Walter,; Groot, Casper de,; Haspelmath, Martin,; Johanson, Lars,; Kibrik, Andrej A.,; Kortmann, Bernd,; König, Ekkehard,; Nedjalkov, Igor’ V.,; Nedjalkov, Vladimir P.,; Podlesskaya, Vera I.,; Slobin, Dan I.,; Tikkanen, Bertil,; Weiss, Daniel,
• HerausgeberIn: Haspelmath, Martin,; König, Ekkehard,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1995
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (565 p.)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contributors
• Contents
• The converb as a cross-linguistically valid category
• The meaning of converb constructions
• Some typological parameters of converbs
• Verb serialization and converbs – differences and similarities
• Adverbial participial clauses in English
• Russian converbs: A typological outline
• The Hungarian converb or verbal adverbial in -va/-ve
• On Turkic converb clauses
• Converbs in Turkish child language: The grammaticalization of event coherence
• The system of switch-reference in Tuva: Converbal and masdar-case forms
• Contextual and specialized converbs in Lezgian
• Converbs in Evenki
• Converbs in Japanese
• Burushaski converbs in their South and Central Asian areal context
• bibliography of converbs
• Index of authors
• Index of subjects
• Index of languages