31.2581, Books: Mermaid Construction: Tsunoda (ed.)

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 21:26:19
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: Mermaid Construction: Tsunoda (ed.)

 


Title: Mermaid Construction 
Subtitle: A Compound-Predicate Construction with Biclausal Appearance 
Series Title: Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL]  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/2DIEKN2 


Editor: Tasaku Tsunoda

Hardback: ISBN:  9783110670806 Pages: 868 Price: U.S. $ 300.00


Abstract:

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
construction - alludes to its paradoxical make-up, where the structure closely
resembling a verb-predicate clause ends with what may look like a
noun-predicate clause. Superficially it looks biclausal; however,
syntactically it is monoclausal. It has a compound predicate which contains an
independent noun, a clitic or an affix derived from a noun, or a nominalizer.
Its compound predicate has a modal, evidential, aspectual, temporal, stylistic
or discourse-related meaning. The paradox is resolved from a diachronic
perspective insofar as a biclausal structure is reanalyzed as a monoclausal
one. This volume shows how a noun may be reanalyzed to become a constituent of
a predicate. It constitutes an important contribution to research on
grammaticalization and in particular, the grammaticalization of nouns and more
generally, to the typology of syntactic reanalysis.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Japanese (jpn)

Language Family(ies): Sino-Tibetan


Written In: English  (eng)

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