{"product_id":"intransitive-predication-9780198236931","title":"Intransitive Predication","description":"\u003cp\u003eIntransitive Predication constitutes a major contribution to the study of typological linguistics and theoretical linguistics in general. Basing his analysis on a sample of 410 languages, Leon Stassen investigates cross-linguistic variation in one of the core domains of all natural languages. The author views this domain as a `cognitive space', the topography of which is the same for all languages. It is assumed to consist of four subdomains, which correspond to a four-way distinction between the semantic classes of event predicates, property predicates, class predicates, and locational predicates. Leon Stassen offers a typology of the structural manifestations of this domain, in terms of the nature and number of the formal strategies used in its encoding. He discusses a number of abstract principles which can be employed in explaining the cross-linguistic variation embodied by the typology. In the final chapter, he brings together the research results in a universally applicable model, which can be read as a `flow chart' for the encoding of intransitive predications in different language types.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leon Stassen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43642883473469,"sku":"9780198236931","price":601.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780198236931.jpg?v=1789676271","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/intransitive-predication-9780198236931","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}