Complementation

A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-955666-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

This book explores the variety of types of complementation found across the languages of the world and their grammatical properties and meanings. It shows how languages differ in the grammatical properties of complement clauses and in the types of verbs which take them, and explores the complement strategies deployed by languages which lack a complement clause construction. The book includes detailed studies of particular languages, including Akkadian, Israeli, Jarawara, and Pennsylvania German. These are framed by R. M. W. Dixon's introduction, which sets out the range of issues, and his conclusion, which draws together the evidence and the arguments.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dixon, R.M.W.

Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: R.M.W. Dixon: Complement Clauses and Complementation Strategies in Typological Perspective

- 2: Kate Burridge: Complement Clause Types in Pennsylania German

- 3: Ghil'ad Zuckermann: Complement Clause Types in Israeli

- 4: R.M.W. Dixon: Complement Clause Type and Complementation Strategy in Jarawara

- 5: Nerida Jarkey: Complement Clause Types and Complementation Strategy in White Hmong

- 6: Carol Genetti: Complement Clause Types and Complementation Strategy in Dolakha Newar

- 7: Guy Deutscher: Complement Clause Types and Complementation Strategies in Akkadian

- 8: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Complement Clause Types and Complementation Strategies in Tariana

- 9: Birgit Hellwig: Complement Clause Type and Complementation Strategies in Goemai

- 10: David W. Fleck: Complement Clause Type and Complementation Strategies in Matses

- 11: Marian Klamer: Complement Clause Type and Complementation Strategy in Kambera

- 12: R.M.W. Dixon: Complementation Strategies in Dyirbal

- Author Index

- Language and Language Family Index

- Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

R.M.W. Dixon is Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (2004) and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (2005). His works on typological theory include Where have All the Adjectives Gone? and Other Essays (1982) and Ergativity (1994). His essay The Rise and Fall of Languages (1997) expounded a punctuated equilibrium model for language development which is the basis for his detailed case study Australian Languages: their Nature and Development (2002). He is currently working on an extensive study of the basic linguistic theory.

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor and Associate Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages and published, in Russian, a grammar of Modern Hebrew (1990). She is a major authority on typological and areal features of South American languages, particularly of the Arawak family: Bare (1995, based on work with the last speaker, who has since died), Warekena (1998), and Tariana (2003). Her monographs include Classifiers: a Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000, 2003), Language Contact in Amazonia (2002) and Evidentiality (2004), all published by OUP. She is currently working on a reference grammar of Manambu, from the Sepik area of New Guinea.