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This book takes a detailed look at two differing complex predicates in the South Asian language Urdu. The Urdu permissive in particular brings into focus the problem of the syntax-semantics mismatch. An examination of the syntactic properties of this complex predicate shows that it is formed by the combination of two semantic heads, but that this combination is not mirrored in the syntax in terms of any kind of syntactic or lexical incorporation.Butt, Miriam J. is the author of 'Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu', published 1995 under ISBN 9781881526582 and ISBN 1881526585.
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