Non-verbal predication in the world’s languages: A typological survey. Volume 2: Africa, Austronesia, Papunesia, Australia

Bertinetto, Pier Marco, Ciucci, Luca, and UNSPECIFIED (2025) Non-verbal predication in the world’s languages: A typological survey. Volume 2: Africa, Austronesia, Papunesia, Australia. Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics, 9/2 . De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin.

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Abstract

The notion of predication is usually associated with the lexical class of verbs. However, the predicate function may also be expressed by Noun / Adjective / Adverb / Quantifier Phrases:

a. John is a doctor. b. The man is old. c. The boys are in the garden. d. Sam's friends are many.

Natural languages do, with respect to non-verbal predication, what they are expected to do in any compartment of grammar: they sharply diverge in their behavior. This book offers a wide typological overview of how languages deal with non-verbal predication (henceforth: NVP). After the pioneering works by Hengeveld (1992) and Stassen (1997), no other work has attempted to provide a comprehensive overview of this pervasive syntactic phenomenon. Hence, the need for this book.

Item ID: 88919
Item Type: Book (Edited)
ISBN: 9783112209677
Keywords: non-verbal predication, morphosyntax, linguistic typology
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Date Deposited: 30 Sep 2025 04:33
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