Download or read book The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu written by Miriam Butt and published by Center for the Study of Language (CSLI). This book was released on 1995-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.