Mermaid Construction A Compound-Predicate Construction with Biclausal Appearance

Mermaid Construction A Compound-Predicate Construction with Biclausal Appearance

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 co...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Tsunoda, Tasaku (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]
Series:Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL] ; 6
Subjects:
Grammatikalisierung.
Noun.
Substantiv.
Zusammengesetztes Prädikat.
Compound Predicate.
Grammaticalization.
Syntactic Reanalysis.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Relative clauses.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Noun phrase.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • List of authors
  • Maps
  • Genetic classification of languages examined or referred to
  • 1 Mermaid construction: An introduction and summary
  • 2 Modern Standard Japanese
  • 3 Mitsukaido dialect of Japanese
  • 4 Old and Early Middle Japanese
  • 5 Irabu Ryukyuan
  • 6 Korean
  • 7 Kolyma Yukaghir
  • 8 Sakha (Yakut)
  • 9 Khalkha Mongolian
  • 10 Amdo Tibetan
  • 11 nDrapa
  • 12 Kathmandu Newar
  • 13 Burmese
  • 14 Kurux
  • 15 Hindi
  • 16 Sidaama
  • 17 Thai
  • 18 Tagalog
  • 19 Koryak
  • Index of names
  • Index of languages
  • Index of subjects

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