Intransitive Predication

von Leon Stassen

788 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb, Fremdsprachendidaktik Lehrmaterial, Begleitmaterial Grammatik, Wortschatz, Aussprache
• ISBN: 9780199258932
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.12.2003
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: OUP Oxford