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Intransitive Predication (Hardcover)
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Intransitive Predication (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory
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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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