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The Syntax of Ditransitives

Author : Elena Anagnostopoulou

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter

Page : 398 pages

File Size : 48,53 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9783110170283

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The book investigates the nature and properties of indirect objects and develops a typology of double object constructions on the basis of an examination of a variety of data within and across languages. It argues for a four-class division of double object constructions depending on (a) a type of case on the goal argument and (b) whether the goal is introduced by a zero applicative head or is an argument of the main verb. The central questions addressed revolve around locality, case and the structural representation of double object constructions.



Studies in Ditransitive Constructions

Author : Andrej Malchukov

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter

Page : 793 pages

File Size : 22,61 MB

Release : 2010-12-23

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3110220377

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This rich volume deals comprehensively with cross-linguistic variation in the morphosyntax of ditransitive constructions: constructions formed with verbs (like give) that take Agent, Theme and Recipient arguments. For the first time, a broadly cross-linguistic perspective is adopted. The present volume, consisting of an overview article and twenty-odd in-depth studies of ditransitive constructions in individual languages from different continents, arose from the conference on ditransitive constructions held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) in 2007. It opens with the editors' survey article providing an overview of cross-linguistic variation in ditransitive constructions, followed by the questionnaire on ditransitive constructions, compiled by the editors in order to elicit various properties of these patterns. The editors' overview discusses formal properties of ditransitive constructions as well as behavioral (or syntactic) and lexical properties (i.e., the extension of ditransitive constructions across different verb classes). The volume includes 23 contributions describing properties of ditransitive constructions in languages from all over the world, written by leading experts. Care has been taken that the contributions to the volume will be representative of structural, geographic and genealogical diversity in the domain of ditransitive constructions. Thus the present volume provides a unique source of information on typological diversity of ditransitive constructions. It is expected that it will be of central interest to all scholars and advanced students of linguistics, especially to those working in the field of language typology and comparative syntax.



Experimental Insights into the Syntax of Romanian Ditransitives

Author : Alina Tigău

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 377 pages

File Size : 29,58 MB

Release : 2020-01-20

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1501513478

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This book investigates the syntax of Romanian ditransitives building on new experimental data with a view to enable a more accurate understanding of these constructions regarding their underlying configuration(s), the structural import of Differential Object Marking or Clitic Doubling among others. One first attempt is to explain the (relatively) free word-order manifested by the two internal arguments, and their symmetrical potential for anaphor and possessor binding. Evidence is provided as to the relative hierarchical order of the two object DPs, with the direct object as the lower one. The featural make-up of the two objects also proves crucial in disentangling the various experimentally uncovered aspects regarding their interaction e.g., differentially marked direct objects bear a [Person] feature and compete with the indirect object in valuing the person feature of the applicative. The feature specification is further refined function of the presence of clitic doubling or the lack thereof. The experimental insights we gain into the syntax of Romanian ditransitives help us integrate them with their counterparts in Romance thereby contributing to a better cross-linguistic understanding of these constructions.



The Diachrony of Ditransitives

Author : Chiara Fedriani

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 328 pages

File Size : 39,19 MB

Release : 2020-10-26

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3110701375

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While ample studies exist on ditransitives in various languages, notably from a typological perspective, more work needs to be done on identifying the main processes and factors that trigger and constrain the changes they undergo over time. The goal of this volume is to help fill this gap by bringing together data and information on individual languages that have thus far been left out of the discussion and by expanding our knowledge of already studied linguistic traditions so as to achieve a broader diachronic description. Since one of the distinctive features of ditransitives is their synchronic variability in terms of structural alternation and alignment split, diachronic research can throw up new insights into developmental dynamics that are eminently complementary; namely, on the one hand, the emergence, development and loss of construction alternation and, on the other, the acquisition of new functions over time. The analyses offered in the book yield different and interconnected answers to the general question of how ditransitives change by drawing on different functional principles that play a role in the diachronic reorganization of this dynamic domain and by providing a number of original theoretical suggestions.



The Syntax of Spanish

Author : Karen Zagona

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 14,74 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 9780521576840

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A clear and well-organised introduction to Spanish syntax, assuming no prior knowledge of current theory.



Studies in the Morpho-Syntax of Greek

Author : Artemis Alexiadou

Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 25,23 MB

Release : 2009-03-26

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1443808253

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The volume presents a collection of papers of recent generative work on Modern Greek morpho-syntax. The book is divided into three parts. Part I of the book deals with argument alternations, part II with clitics and part III with the syntax and semantics of free relatives. The book will be interesting for scholars working on Greek but also in theoretical linguistics, as it exemplifies how the study of Greek feeds the development of generative theory. The issues discussed in the book are currently highly relevant for the develop­ment of a satisfactory theory of comparative syntax as well as the interface between syntax and morphology and syntax and semantics. Thus the analyses put forth here will contribute to the elaboration of such a theory and to our understanding of cross-linguistic variation.



Introducing Arguments

Author : Liina Pylkkänen

Publisher : MIT Press

Page : 346 pages

File Size : 18,47 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0262162547

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This compositional theory of verbal argument structures explores how 'noncore' arguments (i.e. arguments that are not introduced by verbal roots themselves) are introduced into argument structure, and examines cross-linguistic variation in introducing arguments.



Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas

Author : Bernard Comrie

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 25,21 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 902720683X

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Patterns of relative clause formation tend to vary according to the typological properties of a language. Highly polysynthetic languages tend to have fully nominalized relative clauses and no relative pronouns, while other typologically diverse languages tend to have relative clauses which are similar to main or independent clauses. Languages of the Americas, with their rich genetic diversity, have all been under the influence of European languages, whether Spanish, English or Portuguese, a situation that may be expected to have influenced their grammatical patterns. The present volume focuses on two tasks: The first deals with the discussion of functional principles related to relative clause formation: diachrony and paths of grammaticalization, simplicity vs. complexity, and formalization of rules to capture semantic-syntactic correlations. The second provides a typological overview of relative clauses in nine different languages going from north to south in the Americas.



Case, Argument Structure, and Word Order

Author : Shigeru Miyagawa

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 334 pages

File Size : 42,20 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0415878594

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Over the years, a major strand of Miyagawa's research has been to study how syntax, case marking, and argument structure interact. In particular, Miyagawa's work addresses the nature of the relationship between syntax and argument structure, and how case marking and other phenomena help to elucidate this relationship. In this collection of new and revised pieces, Miyagawa expands and develops new analyses for numeral quantifier stranding, ditransitive constructions, nominative/genitive alternation, "syntactic" analysis of lexical and syntactic causatives, and historical change in the accusative case marking from Old Japanese to Modern Japanese. All of these analyses demonstrate an intimate relation among case marking, argument structure, and word order.



Ditransitive structures : the English preposition TO and the Romanian preposition LA

Author : Tania MORARU-ZAMFIR

Publisher : Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 16,72 MB

Release : 2023-01-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 6061613865

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This book examines the syntactic properties of the English preposition to and the Romanian preposition la ”at/to” within ditransitive structures. Being a study of comparative syntax from a generative perspective, it aims at bringing into discussion the properties of these two functional prepositions, in both English and Romanian. The comparative approach shows that the English to is a functional preposition, fully predictable from the structure of the verb which can be deleted. To is a case marker and the dative arguments introduced by this preposition are DPs. By way of contrast, Romanian la has shifted from a case marker to a [Person] marker. La has a double status, as follows: it has a functional status only when the Dat argument, analysed as DP can be doubled by the clitic, where la is a [Person] marker. In the absence of the clitic, la-phrases are interpreted as PPs and la will be attributed a lexical status. Thus, unlike the functional to, la is both (a) a functional dative marker and (b) a core lexical preposition of the location and movement frames where la assigns accusative case to its object.