Coverbs and Complex Predicates in Wagiman

Name: Coverbs and Complex Predicates in Wagiman
Brand: Centre for the Study of Language & Information
SKU: 9781575861739
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Autor: Stephen Wilson

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Wagiman is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by about ten people in the top end of the Northe...

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Autor

Stephen Wilson

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1999

Pagini

190

EAN

9781575861739

ISBN

1575861739

Enbook ID

04820974

Editura

Centre for the Study of Language & Information

Greutate

Dimensiuni

152 x 228 x 16

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Wagiman is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by about ten people in the top end of the Northern Territory. It possesses an unusual open class of words which Wilson calls 'coverbs'. Coverbs are responsible for conveying a wide range of mostly verbal and adjectival meanings. They are most frequently paired with an inflecting verb from a closed class to form a complex predicate: the coverb and inflecting verb jointly determine the verbal semantics and argument structure of the clause. This book provides a descriptive and analytical account of the behaviour of coverbs in Wagiman, especially their role in complex predicate formation. The author seeks to discover what governs which pairings of coverbs and inflecting verbs are possible, and how the meaning of the whole can be derived from the meanings of the parts. Wilson pursues a formal account of Wagiman complex predicates within Lexical Functional Grammar, seeing complex predicate formation as the fusion of Lexical Conceptual Structures.

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