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This book investigates cross-linguistic variation in one of the core domains of all natural languages. Leon Stassen views this domain as a 'cognitive space', the topography of which is the same for all languages. It is assumed to consist of four sub-domains, which correspond to a four-way distinction between the semantic classes of event predicates, property predicates, class predicates, and locational predicates. The book offers a typology of the structural manifestations of this domain, in terms of the nature and number of the formal strategies used in its encoding. The author discusses a number of abstract principles which can be employed in explaining the cross-linguistic variation embodied by the typology. In the final chapter he brings together the research results in a universally applicable model, which can be read as a 'flow-chart' for the encoding of intransitive predications in different language types.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Historical & comparative linguistics

• Full title: Intransitive Predication
• Author: Stassen, Leon (Senior Lecturer, Department of General Linguistics, The Catholic University of Nijmegen)
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 788
• EAN: 9780199258932
• ISBN: 0199258937
• ID: 04530677
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 1168 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 158 × 43 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. December 2003

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