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Intransitive Predication
Leon Stassen
出版Clarendon Press, 2003
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & PunctuationLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & ComparativeLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / SyntaxLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics
ISBN01992589379780199258932
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DLh8QODmcEsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 subdomains, 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 disusses a number of abstract principles which can be employed in explaining the cross-linguistic variation emodied 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.