Participles: A Typological Study (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [Ealt])

Description

The book is the first large-scale typological study of participles, based on data from more than 100 languages. Its main aim is to model the diversity of non-finite verb forms involved in adnominal modification. Participles are examined with respect to several morphological and syntactic parameters, and are shown to be a versatile cross-linguistic category. The book is of interest to language typologists and descriptive linguists. Contents Acknowledgements List of figures List of tables Abbreviations and glossing conventions 1. Introduction 2. Defining participles 3. Participial orientation 4. Desententialization and nominalization 5. Morphological desententialization of participial relative clauses 6. Participant expression in participial relative clauses 7. Participial systems Appendix 1. Languages investigated in the study Appendix 2. Properties of the languages in the core sample Appendix 3. Forms considered in the study References Index of subjects Index of languages