[Lingtyp] verbless predications

Spike Gildea spike at uoregon.edu
Thu Aug 8 17:30:39 UTC 2024


I would also suggest:


Mikkelsen, Line. 2011. Copular clauses. In Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, and Paul Portner (eds.) Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, volume 2, 1805–1829. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Overall, Simon, Rosa Vallejos, & Spike Gildea. 2018. Non-verbal predication in Amazonian languages: Introduction. Nonverbal predication in Amazonian Languages, ed. by Simon Overall, Rosa Vallejos, & Spike Gildea, 1-49. Typological Studies in Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Pustet, Regina. 2003. Copulas: Universals in the categorization of the lexicon. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.



And especially:



Stassen, Leon. 1997. Intransitive Predication. Oxford: OUP.



Best,

Spike

From: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Christian Lehmann via Lingtyp <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Date: Thursday, August 8, 2024 at 1:49 PM
To: lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] verbless predications
Dear Sergey,

here are some references for nominal clauses:

Clairis, Christos & Chamoreau, Claudine & Costaouec, Denis & Guérin, Françoise (eds.) 2005, Typologie de la syntaxe connective. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes (Rivages linguistiques).
Hengeveld, Kees 1990, "Semantic relations in non-verbal predications." Nuyts, Jan & Bolkestein, A. Machtelt & Vet, Co (eds.), Layers and levels of representation in language theory. A functional view. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J. Benjamins; 101-122.

Hengeveld, Kees 1992, Non-verbal predication. Theory, typology, diachrony. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Levin, Saul 1978, "Predication through an obligatory copulative verb." LACUS 5:503-509.

Li, Charles N. & Thompson, Sandra A. 1977, "A mechanism for the development of copula morphemes." Li, Charles N. (ed.), Mechanisms of syntactic change. Austin & London: University of Texas Press; 419-444.

Penner, Zvi 1988, The grammar of the nominal sentence. A government-binding approach. Bern: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität (Arbeitspapier, 24).

Pernée, Lucien 1985, "La relation prédicative en grec: phrase nominale et verbe être." Travaux du Cercle Linguistique d'Aix-en-Provence 3:61-75.

Rapoport, Tova R. 1987, Copular, nominal and small clauses. A study of Israeli Hebrew. Cambridge: MIT, Department of Linguistics & Philosophy (Unpubl. PhD dissertation).

Vapnarsky, Valentina 2013, "Is Yucatec Maya an omnipredicative language? Predication, the copula and focus constructions." Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 66:40-86.

Wetzer, Harrie 1992, "`Nouny' and `verby' adjectivals: a typology of predicative adjectival constructions." Kefer, Michel & Van der Auwera (eds.), Meaning and grammar. Cross-linguistic perspectives. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, 10); 223-262.

Wetzer, Harrie 1996, The typology of adjectival predication. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, 17).

A topic different from this one are clauses which are missing their verb. This is treated for Latin in

Carvalho, Paulo de 1978, "Syntaxe et sémantique: verbe et phrase en latin." Revue des Études Anciennes 80:239-247.
and for Russian in

Wiemer, Björn 1996, "Klassifikacija nulevyx skazujemyx v russkom jazyke po ix leksičeskim i referencial'nym xarakteristikam." Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowańskiej 33:245-273.

Best,

Christian


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