Secondary Predication And Adverbial Modification: The Typology Of Depictives University Press Scholarship Online

This is the first book to approach depictive secondary predication - a hot topic in syntax and semantics research - from a crosslinguistic perspective. It maps out all the relevant phenomena and brings together critical surveys and new contributions on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties. This Book Approaches Depictive Secondary Predication From A Crosslinguistic Perspective. It Maps Out All The Phenomena And Brings Together Critical Surveys And New Contributions On Their Morphosyntactic And Semantic Properties--provided By Publisher. 1. Issues In The Syntax And Semantics Of Participant-oriented Adjuncts : An Introduction / Nikolaus P. Himmelmann And Eva Schultze-berndt -- 2. Depictives In English And Warlpiri / Jane Simpson -- 3. Adverbials And Depictives As Restrictions / Thomas Muller-bardey -- 4. Depictive Agreement And The Development Of A Depictive Marker In Swiss German Dialects / Claudia Bucheli Berger -- 5. Quantifying Depictive Secondary Predicates In Australian Languages / William B. Mcgregor -- 6. Depictives In Kartvelian / Winfried Boeder -- 7. On Depictive Secondary Predicates In Laz / Silvia Kutscher And N. Sevim Genc -- 8. Participant Agreement In Panoan / Pilar M. Valenzuela -- 9. Secondary Predicates And Adverbials In Nilotic And Omotic : A Typological Comparison / Azeb Amha And Gerrit J. Dimmendaal -- 10. Asyndetic Subordination And Deverbal Depictive Expressions In Shona / Tom Guldemann -- 11. Forms Of Secondary Predication In Serializing Languages : On Depictives In Ewe / Felix K. Ameka -- 12. Depictive And Other Secondary Predication In Lao / Nicholas J. Enfield -- 13. A Semantic Map For Depictive Adjectivals / Johan Van Der Auwera And Andrej Malchukov. Edited By Nikolaus P. Himmelmann And Eva Schultze-berndt. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Depictive secondary predicates, such as'raw'in'George ate the fish raw', are central to current issues in syntactic and semantic theory - in particular predication theory, phrase structure theories, issues of control and grammatical relations, and verbal aspect. This is the first book to approach depictive secondary predication from a cross-linguistic perspective. It describes all the relevant phenomena and brings together critical surveys and new contributions on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties. It considers similarities and differences between secondary predicates and other types of adjuncts, including adverbials of manner, comparison, quantity, and location. The authors are leading scholars with a first-hand knowledge of the languages they discuss. Their approach is theory-neutral and pragmatic: they draw on insights and research traditions ranging from the minimalist program to semantic maps methodology. The book will interest scholars working on the semantics or syntax of secondary predicates, adverbials, and the role of agreement and other morphological marking. It has been designed for use in advanced syntax and typology classes.