The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu

• Author(s): Miriam Butt,
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
• Pages: 245
• ISBN_10: 1881526585
  ISBN_13: 9781881526582
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Foreign Language Study / Indic Languages , History / Asia / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Syntax , Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics ,

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.