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Intransitive Predication constitutes a major contribution to the study of typological linguistics and theoretical linguistics in general. Basing his analysis on a sample of 410 languages, Leon Stassen investigates cross-linguistic variation in one of the core domains of all natural languages. The author 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. Leon Stassen 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. He discusses a number of abstract principles which can be employed in explaining the cross-linguistic variation embodied 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.

Table of Contents:
Part I: The Typology 1: Introduction 2: The Verbal and the Locational Strategy 3: The Nominal Strategy 4: The Typology of Intransitive Predication Part II. Switching 5: Adjective-Switching 6: Nominal and Locational Switching 7: Verb-Switching 8: Multiple Switching and Complex Cases Part III. Tensedness 9: Adjectives and the Tensedness Parameter 10: Tensed Languages 11: Non-Tensed Languages 12: Problematic Cases 13: Evaluation and Explanation Part IV. The Model 14: The Model of Intransitive Predicate Encoding Conclusion Appendices References

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`The book is long, but readers will find the effort well worthwhile ... It is difficult to do justice in a review to a book of this magnitude. The book provides a valuable set of data and convincing arguments to support the typology proposed ... A value of the book is that the proposed typology provides a solid foundation for future empirical investigation. The book is the second in a series on typology. I hope that subsequent volumes in the series will be of such a high quality.' Edith L Bavin, Linguistics Vol 35 1999


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198236931
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 244 mm
  • No of Pages: 792
  • Spine Width: 48 mm
  • Width: 165 mm
  • ISBN-10: 019823693X
  • Publisher Date: 11 Sep 1997
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory
  • Weight: 1335 gr


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