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Intransitive Predication constitutes a major contribution to the study of typological linguistics and theoretical linguistics in general. Basing his analysis on a sample of 410 languages, Leon Stassen investigates cross-linguistic variation in one of the core domains of all natural languages. The author views this domain as a 'cognitive space', the topography of which is the same for all languages. It is assumed to consist of four subdomains, which correspond to a four-way distinction between the semantic classes of event predicates, property predicates, class predicates, and locational predicates. Leon Stassen 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. He 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: Leon Stassen
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 792
• EAN: 9780198236931
• ISBN: 019823693X
• ID: 04523701
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 1335 g
• Dimensions: 244 × 165 × 48 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 1997

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