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Building and Interpreting Possession Sentences /
"A major question for linguistic theory concerns how the structure of sentences relates to their meaning. There is broad agreement in the field that there is some regularity in the way that lexical semantics and syntax are related, so that thematic roles (the different participant roles in an e...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
The MIT Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Domain of Inquiry; 1.2 The Architecture of the Grammar; 1.3 Consequences and Major Claims; 1.4 Building and Interpreting Possession Sentences: The Solution in a Nutshell; 1.5 Excursus: Why John is a doctor = John has a doctor; 1.6 Structure of this Book; 2 Previous Approaches to Predicative Possession: A Guide for the Perplexed; 2.1 The Scale of the Puzzles: Typological Work; 2.2 The Too-Many-(Surface)-Structures Puzzle: The Freeze/Kayne Tradition; 2.3 Extensions and Reactions to the Freeze/Kayne Tradition.
- 2.4 Approaches to the Too-Many-Meanings Puzzle2.5 Chapter Conclusion: Approaching Predicative Possession; 3 The Micro-Comparative Syntax of Possession in Quechua; 3.1 Outline of the Chapter; 3.2 Background on Quechua and a Word on the Data; 3.3 Possession Sentences, Movement, and UTAH; 3.4 be-appl in Cochabamba vs. Santiago del Estero Quechua; 3.5 To have and to hold Across the Quechua Family; 3.6 Conclusions; 4 Building and Interpreting HAVE Sentences; 4.1 The Syntax and Semantics of Have; 4.2 A Loose End: Modal Have; 4.3 A Language with Two haves: Icelandic; 4.4 Conclusions.
- 5 Consequences and Comparisons5.1 Comparing the Approaches; 5.2 Problems for the Freeze/Kayne Approach; 5.3 Crucial Predictive Differences; 5.4 Conclusion; 6 Extending the Typology I: Predicativization; 6.1 Introducing -yoq; 6.2 -yoq-Marked Phrases Are Nominal (for at Least Some Speakers); 6.3 Against Decompositional Approaches to -yoq; 6.4 -yoq and the Semantics of Predicativization; 6.5 The Comparative Syntax of Predicativization; 6.6 Conclusion; 7 Extending the Typology II: The with-Possessive; 7.1 Re-introducing with-Possessives; 7.2 Levinson's (2011) Approach.
- 7.3 with-Possessives in Icelandic and Bantu7.4 Conclusion: Syntax and Semantics in with-Possessives; 8 Conclusions and Prospects; 8.1 Summary of the Proposal and Arguments; 8.2 Areas for Extension; 8.3 General Conclusion; Appendix: Existential be-based Possession Constructionsin the System of Francez (2009); Bibliography; Index.