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The Typology of Adjectival Predication /

Wetzer, Harrie

The Typology of Adjectival Predication / Harrie Wetzer. - Reprint 2013 - 1 online resource (398 p.) - Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 17 0933-761X ; .

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Part One. General background -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Adjectival encoding in language: The standard approach -- Chapter 3. Adjectival encoding in language: Nouniness and verbiness -- Part Two. A typology of predicative adjectival constructions -- Chapter 4. Preliminaries -- Chapter 5. Nouny adjectivale in type-Α languages -- Chapter 6. Verby adjectivale in type-Α languages -- Chapter 7. Adjectival predication in type-B languages -- Part Three. Towards an explanation of the nouny-verby split -- Chapter 8. The Tense Hypothesis -- Notes -- Appendix A: Alphabetical listing of the sample -- Appendix Β. Genetic and areal stratification of the sample -- References -- Index of languages -- Index of names -- Index of subjects

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In English.

9783110149890 9783110813586

10.1515/9783110813586 doi


Grammar, Comparative and general--Adjectivals.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Nominals.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Verbals.
Typology (Linguistics).
Adjektiv.
Kontrastive Grammatik.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.

P273 / .W48 1996

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