Intransitive Predication

ISBN-13: 9780199258932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 800 str.

Leon Stassen

Opis

Stassen makes a major contribution to the study of language typology with Intransitive Predication. Basing his analysis on a sample of 410 languages, he presents a universally applicable model for defining the domain of intransitive predication in natural languages. Intransitive predicates are defined in terms of four domains: events (Sarah is walking), classes (Sarah is a secretary), properties (Sarah is tall), and locations (Sarah is in the garden).

Recenzje

Not only is Stassen to be commended for the amount of data on which his conclusions are based, but also for the degree of detail that makes this book an exemplar for linguistic typology.....This book is an important contribution to our understanding of intransitive predicates.

O autorze

Leon Stassen is a senior lecturer in the Department of General Linguistics at the University of Nijmegen , The Netherlands.