Download or read book Participles written by Ksenia Shagal and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the first large-scale typological study of participles, based on data from more than 100 languages. Its main aim is to model the diversity of non-finite verb forms involved in adnominal modification. Participles are examined with respect to several morphological and syntactic parameters, and are shown to be a versatile cross-linguistic category. The book is of interest to language typologists and descriptive linguists.