Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification The Typology of Depictives

This is the first book to approach depictive secondary predication - a hot topic in syntax and semantics research - from a crosslinguistic perspective. It maps out all the relevant phenomena and brings together critical surveys and new contributions on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties.

Depictive secondary predicates such as raw in George ate the fish raw are important for current issues in syntactic and semantic theory, in particular predication theory, phrase structure theories, issues of control and grammatical relations, and verbal aspect. This is the first book to approach depictive secondary predication from a crosslinguistic perspective. It maps out all the relevant phenomena and brings together critical surveys and new contributions on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties. In particular it considers similarities and differences between secondary predicates and other types of adjuncts, including adverbials of manner, comparison, quantity, and location. The authors are leading scholars with a first-hand knowledge of the languages they discuss. Their approach is theory-neutral and pragmatic: they draw on insights and research traditions ranging from the minimalist program to semantic maps methodology. The book will interest scholars working on the semantics or syntax of secondary predicates, adverbials, and the role of agreement and other morphological marking. It has also beeen designed for use in advanced syntax and typology classes.

1 - Issues in the Syntax and Semantics of Participant-oriented Adjuncts: an introduction
2 - Depictives in English and Warlpiri
3 - Adverbials and Depictives as Restrictors
4 - Depictive Agreement and the Development of a Depictive Marker in Swiss German Dialects
5 - Quantifying Depictive Secondary Predicates in Australian Languages
6 - Depictives in Kartvelian
7 - On Depictive Secondary Predicates in Laz
8 - Participant Agreement in Panoan
9 - Secondary Predicates and Adverbials in Nilotic and Omotic: A Typological Comparison
10 - Asyndetic Subordination and Deverbal Depictive Expressions in Shona
11 - Forms of Secondary Predication n Serialising Languages: On Depictives in Ewe
12 - Depictive and Other Secondary Predication in Loa
13 - A Semantic Map for Depictive Adjectivals

Nikolaus P. Himmelmann is Professor of Linguistics at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His research interests include typology and grammaticisation theory, prosody, and grammar as well as language documentation and description. He is the author of an in-depth study of the typology and grammaticalization of demonstratives and articles (Tübingen: Niemeyer) and co-editor of The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar (London: Routledge). He has done fieldwork in the Philippines, Sulawesi and East Timor and published widely on core issues in Austronesian grammar, including the nature of lexical and syntactic categories and voice. Eva Schultze-Berndt is Professor of Linguistics at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. Her research interests include typology, grammar of spoken language, lexical semantics, language contact, and language documentation and description. She has published on complex and secondary predication, verb semantics, word classes, and construction-based approaches to grammar, from a typological perspective and with a focus on the Northern Australian language Jaminjung based on her own fieldwork.