Complementation A Cross-Linguistic Typology [Paperback]

This book explores the variety of types of complementation found across the languages of the world and their grammatical properties and meanings. It shows how languages differ in the grammatical properties of complement clauses and in the types of verbs which take them, and explores the complement strategies deployed by languages which lack a complement clause construction. The book includes detailed studies of particular languages, including Akkadian, Israeli, Jarawara, and Pennsylvania German. These are framed by R. M. W. Dixon's introduction, which sets out the range of issues, and his conclusion, which draws together the evidence and the arguments.

1. Complement Clauses and Complementation Strategies in Typological Perspective,R.M.W. Dixon
2. Complement Clause Types in Pennsylania German,Kate Burridge
3. Complement Clause Types in Israeli,Ghil'ad Zuckermann
4. Complement Clause Type and Complementation Strategy in Jarawara,R.M.W. Dixon
5. Complement Clause Types and Complementation Strategy in White Hmong,Nerida Jarkey
6. Complement Clause Types and Complementation Strategy in Dolakha Newar,Carol Genetti
7. Complement Clause Types and Complementation Strategies in Akkadian,Guy Deutscher
8. Complement Clause Types and Complementation Strategies in Tariana,Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
9. Complement Clause Type and Complementation Strategies in Goemai,Birgit Hellwig
10. Complement Clause Type and Complementation Strategies in Matses,David W. Fleck
11. Complement Clause Type and Complementation Strategy in Kambera,Marian Klamer
12. Complementation Strategies in Dyirbal,R.M.W. Dixon
Author Index
Language and Language Family Index
Subject Index

R.M.W. Dixon is Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languagelƒ¼