Atypical predicate-argument relations
1st Edition
Published on 8. December 2016
299 pages
978-90-272-6625-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book deals with atypical predicate-argument relations. Although the relations between predicates, especially verbal, and their arguments have been long studied, most studies are concerned with typical telic verbs in the past tense, indicative mood, active voice, with all arguments expressed. Recently, linguists have become interested in other types of predicate-argument relations displaying atypical properties, be they morphological or syntactic, in one language or cross-linguistically. The articles in this book investigate some of these: argument marking with some special groups of verbs, arguments not foreseen in the verb valency and contributed by the construction, verbs in idiomatic constructions, valency-changing operations, arguments in thetic sentences or in participle constructions etc. The authors work within different theoretical frameworks and on various languages, from more current languages like English, Spanish, French or German, to Hebrew or lamaholot, an Austronesian language.
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Content
- Intro
- ATYPICAL PREDICATE-ARGUMENT RELATIONS
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Part 1. Atypical realization of the main arguments of the verb
- Verbs of pain and accusative subjects in Romanian
- 0. Introduction
- 1. The Inalienable Possession Hypothesis vs. the Unaccusativity Hypothesis
- 2. Verbs of pain and their argument structures
- 3. [Ma Vpain NPbody part]: Identifying subjects and objects
- 4. Verbs of pain and the opposition accusative vs. dative subjects
- 5. Conclusions
- References
- Non-canonical 'existential-like' constructions in Colloquial Modern Hebrew
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A semantic classification
- 3. The 'coercive force' of the construction and its semantic scope
- 4. Behavioral and coding properties of the construction in CMH
- 5. Structural analysis
- 6. The functional sentence perspective and the speaker's perspectival choice
- 7. Summary and conclusions
- References
- IO realization variation in Spanish reverse psych verb sentences
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Distribution of clitic doubling in psych verb sentences with a post verbal IO
- 3. Any systematic distributional differences between the two variant constructions?
- 4. Implications
- References
- Non-human agents as subjects in English and Dutch: A corpus-based translation study
- Introduction
- 1. Theoretical preliminaries
- 2. Non-human agents as subjects of give and geven
- 3. Corpus data and methodology
- 4. Data-analysis: English instances and their Dutch translations
- 5. Discussion
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Online dictionary items
- Part 2. Valency-changing devices and non-finite verb forms
- The argument-structure configuration of English middle and related structures
- Introduction
- 1. What are middles?
- 2. English diathesis alternations
- 3. The representation of argument structure
- References
- Non-categorical categories. Aspect, Voice, Pred and the category of Participles
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A typology of non-finite forms
- 3. Underspecified Participles in Romanian
- 4. Conclusions
- References
- Part 3. Variations in transitivity
- The semantic motivation of non-canonical predicative relations: The French transitive construction
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The transitive construction
- 3. The meaning of the transitive construction
- 4. The meaning of the transitive construction in contemporary French: Case studies
- 5. The meaning of the transitive construction in contemporary French: Deductions
- References
- Atypical argument structures in French: From metaphorical uses to atypical ones
- Introduction
- 1. Distinction between external and internal causation
- 2. Two descriptive modes of causative events
- 3. Atypic uses
- Conclusion
- References
- Split intransitivity in Lamaholot (East Flores, Indonesia)
- Introduction
- 1. Split intransitivity: A definition
- 2. Agreement morphology in Lamaholot
- 3. Lexically fixed intransitive split (Split-S)
- 4. Fluid intransitive split (Fluid-S)
- 5. Fluid intransitive split and aspect marking
- 6. Split intransitivity and the Lamaholot dialect chain
- Conclusion
- References
- Part 4. Norm variation in predicate-arguments relations
- Geographic variation in a non-canonical infinitive structure with the modal verb brauchen
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Corpora analysis
- 3. Theoretical accounts
- 4. Conclusion
- References
- Verbal constructions in spoken language deviating from the norm: Reflections on atypicality
- 1. Introduction: What is atypical in a language?
- 2. Norms described within "official" grammars
- 3. Norms according to native speaker judgment of correct language use
- 4. Norms discovered via the corpus-based study and observations of language use
- 5. Types of typicality and definition of atypicality
- References
- Index of authors
- Index of subjects
