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The volume collects a selection of papers presented at a European Colloquium held at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in October 1997. It focuses on phenomena at the boundary between morphology and syntax, and provides analyses for data from the fields of both inflectional and derivational morphology and word order. Morpho-syntactic phenomena are analysed cross-linguistically and cross-theoretically, as typologically-different languages (European, Afro-Asiatic, American and Austronesian ones) are dealt with and compared according to a variety of approaches, from minimalism and lex

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Morphosyntax --- Grammar, Comparative

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"Il libro offre una proposta di natura semantica sulla combinazione verbo-complementi all'interno dell'enunciato, basata sul concetto di frame e sulle recenti scelte teoriche della Linguistica cognitiva e della Grammatica delle costruzioni. L'analisi si avvale della ricerca su dati linguistici rilevati da corpora di ampia dimensione dell'italiano e individuati nei loro contesti d'uso. Lavorando su enunciati effettivamente prodotti dagli utenti e rilevando la frequenza con cui vengono formate le combinazioni verbo-complementi, si è in grado di identificare le costruzioni tipiche e maggiormente utilizzate, ma anche quelle più particolari e meno frequenti, interessanti in quanto portatrici di arricchimenti semantici e usi creativi che si fissano fino ad arrivare a vere e proprie espressioni idiomatiche."

Italian language --- Verb phrase --- Syntax --- Semantics

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The notion of light verb constructions has been traditionally related to the 'insignificance' of the verb, which is described as a grammatical item only codifying TAM system and ϕ-features, whereas the whole predicative content is thought to be conveyed by the noun. This book deals with the light verb constructions as instances of complex verbs, intended as multi-predicational but monoclausal structures. This allows to deepen the actual verb lightness, the effective noun predicativity, as well as their effect on the cohesion of the construction. The papers in this volume reflect on the concrete contribution of noun and verb to the event and argument structure, and on the relevance of semantically different noun classes for the verb selection. From different theoretical approaches, data of a great variety of languages are investigated, such as Indo-European languages - both modern (Germanic, Slavic, Romance and Iranian languages) and ancient (Latin and Ancient Greek) - but also Mandarin Chinese, and different polysynthetic languages (e.g. Ket, Nivkh, Murrinh-Patha, Kiowa, Bininj Gun-wok, Ainu). The range of topics, languages and perspectives presented in this book make it of great interest to both theoretical and applied linguists.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Verb. --- Complex Predicates. --- Light Verb Constructions. --- Noun Predicativity. --- Verb Lightness.

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Language description enriches linguistic theory and linguistic theory sharpens language description. Based on evidence from the world's languages, functional-typological linguistics has established a number of thorough generalizations about the nature of linguistic categorizations and their manifestation in natural languages. Empirical studies in these fields of linguistics have contributed to sharpen linguistic theory in several respects. This volume is a collection of 19 contributions from outstanding scholars in the field of functional-typological linguistics that address fundamental issues in the study of language, such as the nature of linguistic categories, the constitution of functional domains, and the form of cross-linguistic continua. Empirical data from individual languages and from typological samples are investigated in order to achieve generalizations about the properties of human grammar(s). Several grammatical phenomena are dealt with including tonal systems, person distinctions, modalities, reciprocity, complex predicates, grammatical relations, word order, clause linkage, and information structure. The structure of the book illustrates the fundamental importance of the analytical distinction between the onomasiological and the semasiological approach to language and language diversity. Both perspectives are integrated in most papers with a dominant focus on either the former or the latter perspective.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Typology (Linguistics). --- Syntax. --- 801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Syntaxe --- Typologie (Linguistique) --- Syntax --- Language and languages --- Linguistic typology --- Linguistics --- Linguistic universals --- Typology --- Classification --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Functional Typology.