Complex Predicates (Volume 64) (Lecture Notes) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575860465 ISBN 13: 9781575860466

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 2001

Synopsis

Complex predicates can be defined as predicates which are composed of more than one grammatical element (either morphemes or words), each of which contributes a non-trivial part of the information of the complex predicate. The papers collected in this volume, which were presented at a workshop at Stanford in 1993, represent a variety of approaches to the question of the range and nature of complex predicates, and draw on data from a wide spectrum of languages. This collection develops a better understanding of the range of phenomena that a general theory of complex predicates would have to account for, and to see what kinds of linguistic ideas and methodologies would be necessary for such a task.

About this title

Book Description:

The papers collected in this volume, which were presented at a workshop at Stanford in 1993, represent a variety of approaches to the question of the range and nature of complex predicates, and draw on data from a wide spectrum of languages. This collection develops a better understanding of the range of phenomena that a general theory of complex predicates would have to account for, and to see what kinds of linguistic ideas and methodologies would be necessary for such a task.

About the Author:

Alex Alsina is head of the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain.

About this edition

• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1575860465
• ISBN 13: 9781575860466
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 514
• Editor: Alsina Alex, Bresnan Joan, Sells Peter