A Theory of Predicates (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)

Ackerman, Farrell; Webelhuth, Gert

ISBN 10: 1575860864 ISBN 13: 9781575860862

Published by Center for the Study of Language and Inf, U.S.A., 1990

Language: English

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Title

A Theory of Predicates (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)

Publisher

Center for the Study of Language and Inf, U.S.A.

Publication Date

1990

Language

English

ISBN 10

1575860864

ISBN 13

9781575860862

Binding

Soft cover

Condition

Very Good

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When studying linguistics, it is commonplace to find that information packaged into a single word in one language is expressed by several independent words in another language. This observation raises an important question: how can linguistics research represent what is the same among languages while accounting for the obvious differences between them?

In this work, two linguists-Farrell Ackerman and Gert Webelhuth-from different theoretical paradigms develop a new general theory of natural language predicates. This theory is capable of addressing a broad range of issues concerning (complex) predicates, many of which remain unresolved in previous theoretical proposals. The book focuses on cross-linguistically recurring patterns of predicate formation. It also provides a detailed implementation of Ackerman and Webelhuth's theory for German tense-aspect, passive, causative, and verb-particle predicates. In addition, a discussion of the extension of these representative analyses to the same predicate construction in other languages is presented. Beyond providing a formalism for the analysis of language-particular predicates, the authors demonstrate how the basic theoretical mechanism they develop can be employed to explain universal tendencies of predicate formation.

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Farrell Ackerman is professor of linguistics and director of the Human Development Program at the University of California, San Diego.

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