Big events, small clauses : the grammar of elaboration / edited by Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen and Dag Haug.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine.

Haug, Dag.

Series:

Language, Context and Cognition

Language, Context, and Cognition ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Adjuncts.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Voice.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (468 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book investigates specific syntactic means of event elaborationacross seven Indo-European languages (English, German, Norwegian,French, Russian, Latin and Ancient Greek): bare and comitative smallclauses ("absolutes"), participle constructions and related clause-like butnon-finite adjuncts that increase descriptive granularity with respect toconstitutive parts of the matrix event (elaboration in the narrowestsense), or describe eventualities that are co-located and connectedwith but not part of the matrix event. The book falls in twoparts. Part I addresses central theoretical issues: How is the co-eventiveinterpretation of such adjuncts achieved? What is the internal syntax ofparticipial and converb constructions? How do these constructionsfunction at the discourse level, as compared to various finite structuresthat are available for co-eventive elaboration? Part II takes an empiricalcross-linguistic perspective. It consists of five self-contained chapters thatare based on parallel corpora and study either the use of a specificconstruction across at least two of the seven object languages, or how aspecific construction is rendered in other languages.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

List of abbreviations

Introduction / Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine / Haug, Dag T. T.

Part I: Theoretical issues

Chapter 1. Co-eventive adjuncts: main issues and clarifications / Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine / Haug, Dag T. T.

Chapter 2. Closed adjuncts: degrees of pertinence / Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine / Haug, Dag T. T. / Sæbø, Kjell-Johan

Chapter 3. Open adjuncts: participial syntax / Helland, Hans Petter / Pitz, Anneliese

Chapter 4. Open adjuncts: degrees of event integration / Haug, Dag T. T. / Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine / Behrens, Bergljot / Helland, Hans Petter

Chapter 5. Competing structures: the discourse perspective / Behrens, Bergljot / Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine / Solfjeld, Kåre

Part II: Language-specific case studies

CHAPTER 6.1. Possessive absolutes in English and their Norwegian correspondences / Hasselgård, Hilde

CHAPTER 6.2. On absolutes in French, German, and Norwegian / Hobæk Haff, Marianne

Chapter 7. Open verb-headed adjuncts in New Testament Greek and the Latin of the Vulgate / Haug, Dag T. T.

Chapter 8. The meaning of Russian converbs / Filiouchkina Krave, Maria

Chapter 9. Participant- and event-oriented adjectival adjuncts in translation German-Norwegian / Solfjeld, Kare

Chapter 10. German wobei-clauses in translation / Ramm, Wiebke

Summary and final discussion / Haug, Dag T. T. / Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine

References

Index

Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-451) and index.

ISBN:

9781283857154

1283857154

9783110285864

311028586X

OCLC:

826857578