The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu

Butt, Miriam

ISBN 10: 1881526593 ISBN 13: 9781881526599

Published by Center for Study of Language and Information, 1995

Language: English

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Title

The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu

Publisher

Center for Study of Language and Information

Publication Date

1995

Language

English

ISBN 10

1881526593

ISBN 13

9781881526599

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Like New

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Complex predicates in a number of diverse languages present an interesting problem for formal linguistics as their overall semantics cannot be placed into a simple one-to-one correspondence with the syntactic or morphological pieces which form the complex predicate. A central issue in the investigation of complex predicates thus is the interaction between syntax and semantics.

This book takes a detailed look at two differing complex predicates in the South Asian language Urdu. The Urdu permissive in particular brings into focus the problem of the syntax-semantics mismatch. An examination of the syntactic properties of this complex predicate shows that it is formed by the combination of two semantic heads, but that this combination is not mirrored in the syntax in terms of any kind of syntactic or lexical incorporation.

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Miriam Butt is a Wissenschaftliche Angestellte in the Seminar f�r Sprachwissenschaft at the Universit�t T�bingen.

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