French Anticausatives

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French Anticausatives

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Author : Steffen Heidinger
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2010-09-22

French Anticausatives written by Steffen Heidinger and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-22 with Foreign Language Study categories.

How do new ways of encoding valence alternations emerge, how and why do they spread, and what are the consequences of their emergence and spread for already existing patterns? This book discusses these questions on the basis of a concrete example of valence alternation, the French causative-anticausative alternation. The main focus of the proposed analysis is the anticausative member of the alternation and the relation between the two formal types of anticausative verbs in French, the reflexive and the unmarked anticausative (La branche s'est cassée vs. La branche a cassé 'The branch broke'). The emergence and spread of the reflexive anticausative, the consequences of these processes for the unmarked anticausative and the semantic relation between reflexive and unmarked anticausatives are analyzed on the basis of several corpus studies.

The Syntax Of Anti Causatives

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Author : Florian Schäfer
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2008-06-26

The Syntax Of Anti Causatives written by Florian Schäfer and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This book develops an approach to the causative alternation that assumes syntactic event decomposition and a configurational theta theory. It is couched within the framework of the Minimalist Program and, especially, within Distributed Morphology. Central to the work is the syntax and semantics of canonical external arguments of causative verbs as well as of oblique causers and causative PPs in the context of anticausative verbs in different languages such as Germanic, Romance, Balkan, and Caucasian languages. The book also develops a new account of the origin and nature of the morphological marking which is often found on anticausatives across languages. The main claim is that this morphology is a reflex of a syntactic way to prohibit the assignment of the external theta role. Moreover, the book develops an account about the origin of the implicit agent in generic middles which often bear the same morphology as marked anticausatives.

Comparisons And Contrasts

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Author : Richard S. Kayne
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-19

Comparisons And Contrasts written by Richard S. Kayne and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Comparisons and Contrasts collects eleven of Richard Kayne's recent articles in theoretical syntax, with an emphasis on comparative syntax, which uses syntactic differences among languages to probe the properties of the human language faculty. Kayne attaches particular importance to uncovering the primitives of syntax/semantics, demonstrating the existence of silent elements that are syntactically and semantically active, and showing their distribution and limitations. He attempts to derive the very existence of the noun-verb distinction-and to account for the sharp differences between nouns and verbs and for the lack of parallelism between them-from the antisymmetric character of syntax. The common theme is an exploration of how wide a range of questions the field of syntax can reasonably attempt to ask and then answer. Comparisons and Contrasts will appeal to scholars and graduate students interested in syntax, semantics, and their effects on other areas of linguistics.

External Arguments In Transitivity Alternations

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Author : Artemis Alexiadou
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015

External Arguments In Transitivity Alternations written by Artemis Alexiadou and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective. It focuses particularly on the causative/anticausative alternation, which the authors take to be a Voice alternation, and the formation of adjectival participles. The authors use data principally from English, German, and Greek to demonstrate that the presence of anticausative morphology does not have any truth-conditional effects, but that marked anticausatives involve more structure than their unmarked counterparts. This morphology is therefore argued to be associated with a semantically inert Voice head that the authors call 'expletive Voice'. The authors also propose that passive formation is not identical across languages, and that the distinction between target vs. result state participles is crucial in understanding the contribution of Voice in adjectival passives. The book provides the tools required to investigate the morphosyntactic structure of verbs and participles, and to identify the properties of verbal alternations across languages. It will be of interest to theoretical linguists from graduate level upwards, particularly those specializing in morphosyntax and typology.

Journal Of Linguistics

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014

Journal Of Linguistics written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Electronic journals categories.

Levels Of Representation In The Lexicon And In The Syntax

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Author : Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987

Levels Of Representation In The Lexicon And In The Syntax written by Maria Luisa Zubizarreta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Glow Newsletter

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

Glow Newsletter written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Generative grammar categories.

La Causativit En Latin

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Author : Peggy Lecaudé
language : fr
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
Release Date : 2014-12-01

La Causativit En Latin written by Peggy Lecaudé and has been published by Editions L'Harmattan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Parmi les notions linguistiques transversales, la causativité occupe une place de choix : les langues mobilisent des moyens très variés relevant des différentes dimensions de la langue, du lexique, de la morphologie ou de la syntaxe. Le latin offre une palette particulièrement riche : il a hérité de formes verbales marquées morphologiquement comme causatives, comme le montre la comparaison avec les autres langues indo-européennes ; il a également développé plusieurs constructions causatives typiques avec des verbes signifiant "faire".

Le Fran Ais D Un Continent L Autre

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Author : Luc Baronian
language : fr
Publisher: Presses Université Laval
Release Date : 2009

Le Fran Ais D Un Continent L Autre written by Luc Baronian and has been published by Presses Université Laval this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Foreign Language Study categories.

This book brings together, in tribute to French-language Quebec linguist Yves Charles Morin, fifteen articles on French linguistics, covering the areas of phonology and morphosyntax in historical perspective, structural or sociolinguistics. The articles are presented to both the French reference and regional varieties, both sides of the Atlantic, as well as relations between these varieties of French.

A Study Of The Distribution Of Certain Syntactic And Semantic Features In Relation To The Definability Of An Indian Linguistic Area

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Author : Colin P. Masica
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971

A Study Of The Distribution Of Certain Syntactic And Semantic Features In Relation To The Definability Of An Indian Linguistic Area written by Colin P. Masica and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with India categories.