Meeting Description

Meeting Description

Predication is the backbone of natural-language syntax and semantics. Secondary predication comes in a wide variety of forms. Early research in theoretical linguistics shows a strong tendency to represent all forms of secondary predication uniformly (Williams 1980). It has become clear in more recent year that generalizations covering the entire spectrum of secondary predication constructions (incl. epistemic constructions, depictives, and resultatives) are less straightforward than previously thought, and that detailed investigation of the various subtypes, in both verbal and nominal environments, is of the essence in building a solid understanding of secondary predication. In this workshop, various problems of secondary predication are approached from new Asian/non-European perspectives, by looking into the details of the facts regarding secondary predication in Asian languages, and often, but not always, through comparisons of Asian languages with other languages or comparisons among Asian languages.