Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: complex predicates
- 2 Complex predicate formation
- 3 The light verb jungle: still hacking away
- 4 Events and serial verb constructions
- 5 Cotemporal serial verb constructions in White Hmong
- 6 Activity incorporates in some Athabaskan languages
- 7 Warlpiri verbs of change and causation: the thematic core
- 8 Complex predicates in Wambaya: detaching predicate composition from syntactic structure
- 9 Compound verbs and ideophones in Wolaitta revisited
- 10 The structure of the light verb construction in Amharic
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: complex predicates
- 2 Complex predicate formation
- 3 The light verb jungle: still hacking away
- 4 Events and serial verb constructions
- 5 Cotemporal serial verb constructions in White Hmong
- 6 Activity incorporates in some Athabaskan languages
- 7 Warlpiri verbs of change and causation: the thematic core
- 8 Complex predicates in Wambaya: detaching predicate composition from syntactic structure
- 9 Compound verbs and ideophones in Wolaitta revisited
- 10 The structure of the light verb construction in Amharic
- Index
Summary
Most of the contributions to this volume are based on papers presented at the Complex Predication and the Coverb Construction session held in Brisbane (Queensland, Australia), 7 July 2006, as part of the Australian Linguistic Society annual conference.
We wish to thank all the contributors for their support and patience. We would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers who assisted in reviewing the individual contributions. Many thanks also to the three anonymous reviewers commissioned by Cambridge University Press for their critical feedback on the prospectus for the volume. Special thanks are due to Helen Barton, Commissioning Editor (Linguistics and Anthropology) at Cambridge University Press, for guidance and encouragement.
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Australian Research Council, Discovery Grant (DP0556350).
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