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Informationen zum Autor Mengistu Amberber is a senior lecturer in Linguistics at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). He is the co-editor (with P. Collins) of Language Universals and Variation (2002), and (with H. de Hoop) Competition and Variation in Natural Languages: The Case for Case (2005), and the editor of The Language of Memory in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective (2007). Brett Baker is a senior lecturer in Linguistics at the University of New England (Armidale, Australia). He is the author of Word Structure in Ngalakgan (2008), and the co-editor (with Ilana Mushin) of Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages (2008). Mark Harvey is a senior lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Newcastle (Australia). His previous publications include Proto Mirndi: A Discontinous Language Family in Northern Australia (2008), A Grammar of Gaagudju, A Language of the Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory (2002) and A Grammar of Limilngan: A Language of the Mary River Region, Northern Territory (2001). Klappentext Provides a fresh perspective on the cross-linguistic properties of complex predicates, considering how additional words contribute to the overall meaning. Zusammenfassung Among the world's languages! it is common to find simple and complex constructions with similar meanings such as 'wash' and 'give a wash'. This book provides provide a fresh perspective on the cross-linguistic properties of complex predicates! considering how additional words contribute to the overall meaning. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: complex predicates Mengistu Amberber, Brett Baker and Mark Harvey; 2. Complex predicate formation Brett Baker and Mark Harvey; 3. The light verb jungle: still hacking away Miriam Butt; 4. Events and serial verb constructions William A. Foley; 5. Cotemporal serial verb constructions in White Hmong Nerida Jarkey; 6. Activity incorporates in some Athabaskan languages Keren Rice; 7. Warlpiri verbs of change and causation: the thematic core Mary Laughren; 8. Complex predicates in Wambaya: detaching predicate composition from syntactic structure Rachel Nordlinger; 9. Compound verbs and ideophones in Wolaitta revisited Azeb Amha; 10. The structure of the light verb construction in Amharic Mengistu Amberber; Author index; Language index; Subject index....
