Approaches to complex predicates / edited by Léa Nash ; Pollet Samvelian.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nash, Léa.

Samvelian, Pollet.

Series:

Syntax and Semantics 41.

Syntax & Semantics ; 41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb phrase.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter / Léa Nash and Pollet Samvelian

Introduction: Approaches to Complex Predicates / Léa Nash and Pollet Samvelian

From Adpositions to Events: The Case of Location Verbs in Basque / Ane Berro

Univerbation of Light Verb Compounds and the Obligatory Coding Principle / Denis Creissels

Variation and Grammaticalisation in Bantu Complex Verbal Constructions: The Dynamics of Information Growth in Swahili, Rangi and SiSwati / Hannah Gibson and Lutz Marten

Tuning in to the Verb-Particle Construction in English / Adele E. Goldberg

Noun-Verb Complex Predicates in Hindi and the Rise of Non-Canonical Subjects / Annie Montaut

Malayalam Ceyy-Support and Its Relation to Event and Argument Structure / Pooja Paul

Complex Predicates as Complementation Structures / Peter Svenonius

Complex Predicate Formation via Voice Incorporation / Susanne Wurmbrand

Index / Léa Nash and Pollet Samvelian.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004307094

9004307095

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004307094 DOI