Memoires de la Societe de Linguistique de Paris Les Constituants Predicatifs et la Diversite des Langues

Certain languages and language families-like Oceanian and Dravidic-grant grammatical status to non-verbal predicates without the support of verbs. Other languages, like German or French, allow the use of averbal predicatives without grammaticalization. Drawing on a large pool of languages, the contributions to the meeting of the 'Societe Linguistique de Paris' on January 24, 2004 gathered here explore the conditions of use of these constructions and their place in the linguistic system of these languages. Languages dealt with include Turkish, Basque, Japanese, Dravidic and Oceanic languages, German and French. French text.Memoires de la Societe de Linguistique de Paris Les Constituants Predicatifs et la Diversite des Langues, was published 2004 under ISBN 9789042916357 and ISBN 9042916354.