The structure of complex predicates in Urdu

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The structure of complex predicates in Urdu

Miriam Butt

(Dissertations in linguistics)

CSLI Publications, c1995

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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English and Urdu (Urdu in roman script)

Bibliography: p. 233-245

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background issues
  • 3. The permissive
  • 4. Aspectual complex predicates
  • 5. Complex predicate formation 6. Linking
  • 7. Extending the approach
  • 8. Conclusion.

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