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Mermaid Construction - A Compound-Predicate Construction with Biclausal Appearance (Hardcover)
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Mermaid Construction - A Compound-Predicate Construction with Biclausal Appearance (Hardcover)
Series: Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL]
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This volume provides detailed studies of the crosslinguistically
unusual mermaid construction in seventeen languages of Asia,
including Modern Standard Japanese, and one language of Africa.
This construction appears to be absent in languages of Europe,
Oceania and the Americas. The name - mermaid construction - alludes
to its paradoxical make-up, where the structure closely resembling
a verb-predicate clause ends with what may look like a
noun-predicate clause. Superficially it looks biclausal; however,
syntactically it is monoclausal. It has a compound predicate which
contains an independent noun, a clitic or an affix derived from a
noun, or a nominalizer. Its compound predicate has a modal,
evidential, aspectual, temporal, stylistic or discourse-related
meaning. The paradox is resolved from a diachronic perspective
insofar as a biclausal structure is reanalyzed as a monoclausal
one. This volume shows how a noun may be reanalyzed to become a
constituent of a predicate. It constitutes an important
contribution to research on grammaticalization and in particular,
the grammaticalization of nouns and more generally, to the typology
of syntactic reanalysis.
General
Imprint: |
de Gruyter Mouton
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Country of origin: |
Germany |
Series: |
Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL] |
Release date: |
August 2020 |
First published: |
2020 |
Editors: |
Tasaku Tsunoda
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Dimensions: |
240 x 170mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
882 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-11-067080-6 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
3-11-067080-1 |
Barcode: |
9783110670806 |
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