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Complex Predicates
Author | : Alex Alsina i Keith,Joan Bresnan,Peter Sells |
Publsiher | : Stanford Univ Center for the Study |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1575860465 |
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A variety of approaches to the question of the range and nature of complex predicates.
Complex Predicates
Author | : Leila Lomashvili |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2011-03-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027287199 |
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Complex predicates present different levels of complexity at the syntactic and morphological levels crosslinguistically. The focus of this book is a subset of these constructions (causative and applicative) in three polysynthetic languages of the South Caucasian language family, in which the functional morphology associated with the argument structure of these constructions is unusually rich. Due to such focus, the syntax-morphology interface in causative and applicative constructions is subject to scrutiny in two main chapters of the book. The analysis includes the argument structure of causatives and applicatives along with the morpho-phonological instantiation of the functional heads involved in these constructions. The book is written very clearly and is accessible for a wide audience including undergraduate students in the introductory syntax and morphology courses as well as graduate students in basic syntax courses and seminars in linguistics. It naturally appeals to a general linguistic audience interested in theoretical linguistics.
Complex Predicates
Author | : Mengistu Amberber,Brett Baker,Mark Harvey |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2010-04-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781139487481 |
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Complex predicates are multipredicational, but monoclausal structures. They have proven problematic for linguistic theory, particularly for proposed distinctions between the lexicon, morphology, and syntax. This volume focuses on the mapping from morphosyntactic structures to event structure, and in particular the constraints on possible mappings. The volume showcases the 'coverb construction', a complex predicate construction which, though widespread, has received little attention in the literature. The coverb construction contrasts with more familiar serial verb constructions. The coverb construction generally maps only to event structures like those of monomorphemic verbs, whereas serial verb constructions map to a range of event structures differing from those of monomorphemic verbs. The volume coverage is truly cross-linguistic, including languages from Australia, Papua New Guinea, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, East Africa and North America. The volume establishes a new arena of research in event structure, syntax, and cross-linguistic typology.
Approaches to Complex Predicates
Author | : Léa Nash,Pollet Samvelian |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789004307094 |
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Complex predicates can be loosely defined as a sequence of items that behave as a single predicate, projecting a single argument structure within a clause. Each of the members of the predicate contributes part of the information ordinarily associated with a single head. The present volume presents a collection of theoretical linguistic results on the study of complex predicates in different perspectives and with a variety of approaches.
The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu
Author | : Miriam Butt |
Publsiher | : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI) |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1995-07 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1881526585 |
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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.
Complex Predicates in Oceanic Languages
Author | : Isabelle Bril,Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2012-04-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110913286 |
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Serial verbs and complex predicates have a long history of research, yet there is comparatively little documentation on Oceanic languages. This volume presents new data for further typological studies. While previous research on serial verbs in Oceanic languages was mostly devoted to "core" serial constructions (with non-contiguous sV(o)sV(o) nuclei), this volume contributes a more detailed investigation of the "nuclear" type of complex predicates involving contiguous sVV(o) nuclei. Complex predicates of the form VV may correspond to two different syntactic structures, either co-ranking or hierarchized (head-modifier). Though the VV pattern does evidence a tendency towards structural compression, often entailing the fusion of the argument structures of two or more nuclei, yet it cannot be reduced to cases of co-lexicalization, compounding or grammaticalization. The data also show the "nuclear" type to be compatible with all types of basic word orders (VSO, VOS, SVO, SOV), with no evidence that this results from any word order change. This challenges the claim that "nuclear" serialization correlates with verb-final order, and "core" serialization with verb-medial order.
Complex Predicates in Nonderivational Syntax
Author | : Erhard Hinrichs,Andreas Kathol,Tsuneko Nakazawa |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2020-06-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780585492223 |
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Covers research in complex predicates within a variety of languages, such as German, Dutch, Italian, French, Korean and Urdu. This work focuses on diverse aspects of complex predicate phenomena, including order variation, constituency relations, interactions with other construction types, argument relations, and the syntax morphology interface.
Complex Predicates
Author | : Stefan Müller |
Publsiher | : Stanford Univ Center for the Study |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2002-01 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1575863855 |
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Complex Predicates examines a number of linguistic phenomena—including auxiliary and verb combinations, causative constructions, predicatives, depictive secondary predicates, and particle and verb combinations—and uses scrambling and fronting data to determine that all except the depictive secondary predicates should be treated as complex predicates. Müller's analysis of inflection and derivation is compatible with syntactical analysis of particle verbs; as a byproduct, it also solves the particle verb bracketing paradox often discussed in the literature.