Intransitive Predication

di Leon Stassen (Autore)

Oxford University Press, 2003

This book investigates cross-linguistic variation in one of the core domains of all natural languages. Leon Stassen views this domain as a 'cognitive space', the topography of which is the same for all languages. It is assumed to consist of four subdomains, which correspond to a four-way distinction between the semantic classes of event predicates, property predicates, class predicates, and locational predicates. The book offers a typology of the structural manifestations of this domain, in terms of the nature and number of the formal strategies used in its encoding. The author disusses a number of abstract principles which can be employed in explaining the cross-linguistic variation emodied by the typology. In the final chapter he brings together the research results in a universally applicable model, which can be read as a 'flow-chart' for the encoding of intransitive predications in different language types.

• Autore: Leon Stassen
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Collana: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory
• Anno: 2003
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 788 p.
• Dimensioni: 233 x 156 mm
• Peso: 1095 gr.
• EAN: 9780199258932

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