Chapter 1
Nonverbal predication in Amazonia
Typological and diachronic considerations
Article outline
- 1.Preliminaries
- 1.1Defining nonverbal predication
- 1.2What constitutes an Amazonian language?
- 2.Structural properties
- 2.1Nonverbal predication that resembles verbal predication
- 2.2Nonverbal predication that is distinct from verbal predication
- 2.3Partially verbal copulas
- 2.4Alternation and suppletion
- 3.Mapping semantic functions and structural strategies
- 4.Diachronic development of nonverbal clauses and copulas
- 4.1A diachronic typology of nonverbal predication
- 4.2Specific diachronic changes identified in Amazonian languages
- 4.2.1Identity predicate > other nonverbal predicates
- 4.2.2Location predicate > property predicate > nominal predicate
- 4.2.3Verbal predicate > property predicate > nominal predicate
- 4.2.4Location predicate > existential predicate
- 4.2.5Sources of possession predicates
- 4.3Some problems of determining directionality
- 5.This volume
- Part I.Overviews of nonverbal predication in individual languages
- Part II.Exploring specific subtypes of nonverbal predicates
- Part III.Diachronic pathways to and from nonverbal predication
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Notes
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Abbreviations and conventions
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