Applicatives : structure and interpretation from a minimalist perspective / Youngmi Jeong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeong, Youngmi.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 104.

Linguistik aktuel = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 104

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Applicative constructions.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Minimalist theory (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Applicatives is concerned with the syntax of constructions that contain arguments that transcend the traditional subject-object characterization, and how the syntax of such constructions yields the interpretive effects that previous research has identified. At the empirical level this volume remedies the inadequacies and limitations of previous accounts by proposing a more nuanced view of all the factors that enter into the syntax and semantics of applicatives. At the theoretical level, this book offers empirical arguments for various theoretical options currently entertained in the minimalist program, among which movement into theta-position, multiple agree, anti-locality, and a very derivational view on successive cyclic movement.

Contents:

Applicatives

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

1. Preliminaries

1.1 The framework

1.2 Applicatives: A basic definition

1.3 A major distinction: Symmetric and asymmetric applicative structures

1.4 Previous approaches to applicative constructions

1.5 A new component: The high/low applicative distinction

1.6 A consensus: The 'escape hatch' analysis

1.7 Problems for the consensus

1.8 Conclusion

2. The Syntax of Applicatives

2.1 Amendments to the consensus, and why they fail

2.2 Towards a more appropriate solution: (Anti-)locality considerations

2.3 Category matters

2.4 Scrambling

2.5 Case matters

2.6 Conclusion

3. The Semantics of Applicatives

3.1 Object sharing: Insights from serial verb constructions

3.2 Object sharing in double object constructions: Theta-driven movement

3.3 Object sharing in resultatives

3.4 Object sharing in high applicatives

3.5 Conclusion

4. Conclusion

References

Name Index

Subject Index

The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-133) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612155031

9781282155039

1282155032

9789027292919

9027292914

OCLC:

713025899