Thematic structure : its role in grammar /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Berlin ; New York :
Foris Publications,
1992.
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Colección: | Linguistic models ;
16. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Thematic conditions on syntactic structures: evidence from locative applicatives
- 1. Background: benefactive and instrumental applicatives
- 2. The problem of locative applicatives
- 2.1. Chichewa
- 2.2. Kinyarwanda and Sesotho
- 3. The role of the applied affix
- 4. Contrast 1: Chichewa vs. Sesotho
- 5. Contrast 2: Kinyarwanda vs. Chichewa/Sesotho
- 6. Chichewa benefactive applicatives revisited
- 7. Implications
- Notes
- References
- Morphology, semantics and argument structure
- 1. Introduction2. Lexical-conceptual structure
- 3. Morphological operations on LCS
- 4. Verbal prefixation and LCS
- 5. Middle verbs
- 6. Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Deverbal compounds and the external argument
- 1. English deverbal compounds
- 2. Italian deverbal compounds
- 3. Italian and English
- 4. English deverbal compounds revisited
- 5. Summary
- Notes
- References
- Sentence accents and argument structure
- 1. Bresnan�s account: the Nuclear Stress Rule
- 2. The generalization
- 2.1 Difficulty of perceiving nonfinal accents2.2. Two PP�s in one argument
- 3. Exploiting the generalization
- 3.1 Multiword predicates
- 3.2. Embedded clauses
- 4. Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- The syntactic character of thematic structure
- 0. Introduction
- 1. The double object construction
- 2. Conflation as incorporation
- 3. Other patterns of conflation
- 4. Lexical representations
- 5. D-structure representations
- 6. Problems of method and the determination of Lexical Relational Structures
- 7. Conflations and the English middle construction8. Conflation from the inner subject position
- 9. The relational structures of location and locatum verbs
- 10. Functional categories in the lexicon
- 11. Some final remarks
- Notes
- References
- Aspect and Theta Theory
- 1. The problem
- 2. Resultatives
- 2.1. Small clauses
- 2.2. Resultatives
- 2.3. Conclusion
- 3. Licensing
- 3.1. The theory of modification
- 3.2. Aspect and Aktionsart
- 3.3. Licensing Resultatives
- 3.4. Accomplishments
- 4. Morphologically complex accomplishments5. Morphologically simplex verbs
- 6. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Raising in syntax, semantics and cognition
- 1. Introduction and overview
- 2. Raising patterns in syntax
- 3. Raising patterns in semantics
- 4. The function of raising
- 5. Raising patterns in cognition
- 6. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Secondary predication as a diagnostic of underlying structure in Pama-Nyungan languages
- 1. Part-whole constructions in Warlpiri
- 2. Stative predicates in Warlpiri