Predicate Argument Structure
Author : Marc Matter
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Page : 220 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 1999
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Author : Marc Matter
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Page : 220 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 1999
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Author : Gillian Ramchand
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780198236511
This book investigates the systematic correspondences between syntactic structure and semantic interpretation in the domain of predicate-argument relationships. It takes as its starting point the striking effects of nominal argument interpretation on aspectual semantics, pursuing the intuition that these effects are not quirky or exceptional, but are in fact the most visible reflexes of a more pervasive and systematic interaction between the aspectual event structure of a predicate and its arguments. The Scottish Gaelic language is the empirical base of the investigation, as it exhibits a set of predicational structures which interact in a highly visible way with its aspectual system. The book provides a detailed working out of a semantic system of argument classification which moves away from lexically-driven thematic roles in the traditional sense and towards a more constrained, syntactically motivated, set of primitives.
Author : Sara Thomas Rosen
Publisher : Garland Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 31,78 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Foreign Language Study
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Author : Thierry Ruchot
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027266255
This book deals with atypical predicate-argument relations. Although the relations between predicates, especially verbal, and their arguments have been long studied, most studies are concerned with typical telic verbs in the past tense, indicative mood, active voice, with all arguments expressed. Recently, linguists have become interested in other types of predicate-argument relations displaying atypical properties, be they morphological or syntactic, in one language or cross-linguistically. The articles in this book investigate some of these: argument marking with some special groups of verbs, arguments not foreseen in the verb valency and contributed by the construction, verbs in idiomatic constructions, valency-changing operations, arguments in thetic sentences or in participle constructions etc. The authors work within different theoretical frameworks and on various languages, from more current languages like English, Spanish, French or German, to Hebrew or lamaholot, an Austronesian language.
Author : Antoni Badia i Cardús
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Page : 18 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 1997
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Author : Leonard H. Babby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,8 MB
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052141797X
This book proposes an intriguing theory of argument structure. Babby puts forward the theory that this set of arguments (the verb's 'argument structure') has a universal hierarchical composition which directly determines the sentence's case and grammatical relations.
Author : Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1412 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107354587
Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.
Author : Erich Steiner
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Page : 58 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 1989
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Author : Léa Nash
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004307095
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. Important empirical and theoretical issues cutting across various subfields of linguistics are being addressed in this book, such as: • Syntactic and semantic modeling of complex predicate formation: compositionality, argument structure, event structure. • Differences between syntactic and morphological processes of lexeme formation. • Typological and diachronic issues in complex predicate formation. • Neo-Davidsonian analyses of abstract predicate decomposition and its morphological correlates. Contributors are: Ane Berro, Denis Creissels, Hannah Gibson, Adele Goldberg, Lutz Marten, Annie Montaut, Léa Nash, Pooja Paul, Pollet Samvelian, Peter Svenonius, and Susanne Wurmbrand.
Author : Alexander Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521190967
A guide to the relations between a predicate and its arguments, for researchers and advanced students in linguistics. Engages foundational issues in both syntax and semantics, with attention to the correspondence between structure at the two levels. Chapters include discussion questions and suggestions for further reading.