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Participles : A Typological Study / Ksenia Shagal.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ; 61Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (XIX, 346 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110627527
  • 9783110629934
  • 9783110633382
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 400
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations and glossing conventions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Defining participles -- 3. Participial orientation -- 4. Desententialization and nominalization -- 5. Morphological desententialization of participial relative clauses -- 6. Participant expression in participial relative clauses -- 7. Participial systems -- Appendix 1. Languages investigated in the study -- Appendix 2. Properties of the languages in the core sample -- Appendix 3. Forms considered in the study -- References -- Index of subjects -- Index of languages
Summary: The book is the first large-scale typological study of participles, based on data from more than 100 languages. Its main aim is to model the diversity of non-finite verb forms involved in adnominal modification. Participles are examined with respect to several morphological and syntactic parameters, and are shown to be a versatile cross-linguistic category. The book is of interest to language typologists and descriptive linguists.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations and glossing conventions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Defining participles -- 3. Participial orientation -- 4. Desententialization and nominalization -- 5. Morphological desententialization of participial relative clauses -- 6. Participant expression in participial relative clauses -- 7. Participial systems -- Appendix 1. Languages investigated in the study -- Appendix 2. Properties of the languages in the core sample -- Appendix 3. Forms considered in the study -- References -- Index of subjects -- Index of languages

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The book is the first large-scale typological study of participles, based on data from more than 100 languages. Its main aim is to model the diversity of non-finite verb forms involved in adnominal modification. Participles are examined with respect to several morphological and syntactic parameters, and are shown to be a versatile cross-linguistic category. The book is of interest to language typologists and descriptive linguists.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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