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The lexicon-syntax interface : perspectives from South Asian languages /
The pronominal clitic system in Kashmiri takes the form of set of verbal suffixes conditioned by the case of the coreferent DP. This system interacts in unexpected ways with differential argument encoding (DAE) in Kashmiri, in which the case-marking of objects in non-perfective aspects is dependent...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins,
©2014.
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| Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 209. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Lexicon-Syntax Interface; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgement; The lexicon-syntax interface; 1. Introduction; 2. The pre-minimalist lexicon; 3. Toward a minimal lexicon; 4. Features of South Asian Languages (SALs); 5. The contribution of the present volume; 6. Conclusion; References; Property concepts and the apparent lack of adjectives in Dravidian*; 1. Introduction; 2. Missing adjectives in Malayalam and other languages; 2.1 The basic paradigm in Malayalam; 2.1.1 Distribution of Class1 and Class2 roots; 2.2 Missing predicative adjectives in Dravidian.
- 2.3 Japanese adjectives3. The analysis; 3.1 Derivation of Class1 words; 3.1.1 Comparative constructions; 3.1.2 Lack of secondary predications; 3.2 Class1 roots in predicative position; 3.2.1 Lack of adjectival ordering restrictions; 3.3 Class2 roots; 4. Conclusion; References; Adjective-fronting as evidence for Focus and Topic within the Bangla nominal domain; 1. Introduction; 2. Phrasal movement within the nominal; 2.1 Against a couple of alternative ways of explaining the phrasal movement; 3. FocusP and TopicP within the nominal domain; 3.1 Evidence for a fixed Focus position.
- 3.2 TopicP within the nominal domain3.3 Evidence that Focus and Topic are not outside the nominal domain; 3.4 Mechanism; 3.5 Comparison with the clausal domain; 4. From the 'lexical'-'functional' and 'syntactic' perspective; 5. Conclusion; 6. Further research; Acknowledgements; References; Rich results; 1. Introduction*; 2. Theoretical assumptions; 2.1 A first phase representation of eventive predicates; 2.2 Light predicates and rich results; 2.3 Dative possessors and the have~be alternation; 3. A first phase account of bar- 'come'; 3.1 bar- as a verb of self-initiated directed motion.
- 3.2 bar- in the experiencer dative construction3.3 bar- as a stative verb; 4. The representation of stative verbs; 4.1 The init projection; 4.2 A result phrase for achievement verbs; 5. Aag- as 'come to be, ' 'come to pass' or 'come to have'; 5.1 The 'happen' and 'become' interpretations of aag-; 6. The possessor/ experiencer as resultee; 6.1 A double object construction in Kannada; 6.2 The experiencer as resultee; 6.3 Conclusion; References; Lexical semantics of transitivizing light verbs in Telugu; 1. Introduction; 2. The theoretical landscape: First Phase Syntax.
- 2.1 Functional decomposition of verbs2.2 Lexical insertion as phrasal spell-out; 3. Aspectual light verbs in Telugu; 3.1 Selectional restrictions on the aspectuals; 3.2 A First Phase Analysis of the selectional restrictions on the aspectual complex predicates; 4. The 3 transitivizer light verbs in Telugu; 4.1 A First Phase analysis of the transitivizer complex predicates; 4.1.1 paDa.veyyi: Aspectual light verb formed using a transitivizer; 4.2 The 3 transitivers have 3 inceptual meanings: Inception, Continuation, and, Completion; 4.3 Inceptual meanings: Evidence from Bangla.