Syntax of Dutch
Adpositions and Adpositional Phrases
Published on 28. November 2013
Book
Hardback
414 pages
978-90-8964-601-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Syntax of Dutch will be published in at least seven volumes in the period 2012-2016 and aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and provides support to all researchers interested in matters relating to the syntax of Dutch, including advanced students of language and linguistics., The volume Adpositions and Adpositional Phrases discusses the internal make-up and the distribution of adpositional phrases. Topics that are covered include complementation and modification of adpositional phrases, as well as their predicative, attributive and adverbial uses. A separate chapter is devoted to the formation and the syntactic behavior of pronominal PPs like 'on it', which also includes a more general discussion of the syntax of so-called R-words like er 'there'.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
786 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-8964-601-9 (9789089646019)
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Person
Hans Broekhuis is a researcher on the Variationist Linguistics Language Portal at the Meertens Instituut, part of the Dutch academy of sciences (KNAW). He has published with colleagues many volumes in the Syntax of Dutch series, and has co-edited Broekhuis, H. & R. Vogel. (2013) Linguistic Derivations and Filtering. Minimalism and Optimality Theory (Equinox, 2013), and a monograph entitled Derivations and evaluations. Object shift in the Germanic languages (Mouton de Gruyter, 2008)
Content
Abbreviations and symbols, Preface and acknowledgments, 1. General introduction 2. Main objective 3. Intended readership 4. Object of description 5. Organization of the material 6. History of the project and future prospects 7. Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter 1 Adpositions: characteristics and classification 1.1. Characterization of the category adposition 1.2. A formal classification of adpositional phrases 1.3. A semantic classification of adpositional phrases 1.4. Borderline cases 1.5. Bibliographical notes Chapter 2 Projection of adpositional phrases: Complementation 2.1. Nominal complements 2.2. Adpositional complements 2.3. Adjectival complements 2.4. Clausal complements 2.5. Absolute PPs, 2.6. Bibliographical notes, Chapter 3 Projection of adpositional phrases: Modification 3.1. Spatial adpositional phrases 3.2. Temporal adpositional phrases 3.3. Non-spatial/temporal adpositional phrases 3.4. Comparative/superlative formation 3.5. Some ambiguous constructions 3.6. Bibliographical note