New publication by Luca Ciucci, 2023-24 fellow

 

Luca Ciucci has just published a two-volume work entitled "Non-Verbal Predication in the World's Languages: A Typological Survey."

This project is the result of a collaboration between 40 researchers from around the world, carried out over more than five years. Published in the prestigious Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics series by De Gruyter Mouton, the work consists of two volumes totalling nearly 1,300 pages and is set to become an essential reference on non-verbal predication for years to come.

The 33 chapters, written by renowned specialists, propose a new typological framework for the study of non-verbal predication, offering detailed descriptions of languages and language families from Eurasia, America, Africa and Oceania. Particular attention is given to languages from traditions that are still poorly documented.

The electronic version is currently available; the print version will be released on 3 November.

 

Luca Ciucci, 2023-2024 Fellow at the Collegium de Lyon and winner of the FIAS program (Horizon Europe research and innovation program – Marie Skłodowska-Curie action), was co-hosted by the "Dynamique du Langage" Laboratory (DDL – CNRS, Université Lumière Lyon 2). Currently at the University of Passau (Germany), Luca Ciucci is an Adjunct Research Fellow in linguistics at James Cook University (Australia). Since 2009, he has been conducting fieldwork in Ayoreo (Bolivia, Paraguay), Chamacoco (Paraguay), and Chiquitano (Bolivia). His doctoral thesis (defended in Pisa, 2013) focused on inflectional morphology in the Zamucoan languages of Bolivia and Paraguay.

More information : Volume 1 and Volume 2