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On the syntactic composition of manner and motion /

Unlike many books and articles that discuss the relation between constructional meaning and the lexicon, 'On the Syntactice Composition of Manner and Motion' examines one phenomenon in detail: the articulation of manner and motion, in three distinct language families - Germanic, Korean, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zubizarreta, Maria Luisa
Other Authors: Oh, Eunjeong
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Series:Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 48.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Preliminaries to the Lexicon-syntax relation and the variable behavior of manner-of-motion verbs
  • 1.1. motion construction : the main issues
  • 1.2. lexical approach : Levin and Rappaport 1995; Rappaport and Levin 1998
  • 1.3. Some syntactic approaches : Borer 1994, 2005; Ritter and Rosen 1998; Folli 2001
  • 1.4. Hale and Keyser model and some elaborations
  • 1.5. Event boundedness and temporal boundedness
  • 1.6. crosslinguistic analysis of manner-of-motion constructions : a preview of chapters 2 and 3
  • Ch. 2 serial-verb construction and verbs of motion in Korean
  • 2.1. Serial-verb constructions (SVCs) in Korean
  • 2.2. Serial verbs of motion in Korean
  • 2.3. Summary
  • App. 2.1 Some remarks on the aspectual properties of -(e)ci
  • App. 2.2 On distinguishing the "prospective possessor" construction from the "directed-motion" and "benefactive" constructions
  • Ch. 3 Motion verbs in Germanic and Romance
  • 3.1. Germanic
  • 3.2. Romance.