Complex Predicates : Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Event Structure (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: complex predicates Mengistu Amberber, Brett Baker and Mark Harvey; 2. Complex predicate formation Brett Baker and Mark Harvey; 3. The light verb jungle: still hacking away Miriam Butt; 4. Events and serial verb constructions William A. Foley; 5. Cotemporal serial verb constructions in White Hmong Nerida Jarkey; 6. Activity incorporates in some Athabaskan languages Keren Rice; 7. Warlpiri verbs of change and causation: the thematic core Mary Laughren; 8. Complex predicates in Wambaya: detaching predicate composition from syntactic structure Rachel Nordlinger; 9. Compound verbs and ideophones in Wolaitta revisited Azeb Amha; 10. The structure of the light verb construction in Amharic Mengistu Amberber; Author index; Language index; Subject index.