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This research monograph is an empirical and theoretical study of clause-final verbal complexes in the history of German. The book presents corpus studies of Middle High German and Early New High German and surveys of contemporary varieties of German. These investigations of the verbal complex address not only the frequencies of the word orders, but also the linguistic factors that influence them. On that empirical basis, the analysis adopted is the classic verb-final approach, with alternative orders derived by Verb (Projection) Raising.

German language --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Syntax. --- Verb phrase. --- Predicate (Grammar) --- Verb phrase --- Phrasal verb --- Predicate --- Verbals --- Linguistics --- Philology

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This monograph probes the structure of the verb phrase through a cross-linguistic investigation of the syntax and morphology of relevant constructions. In particular, the author provides evidence for two event-related non-lexical projections called "inner aspect" and "event". The former is found within the verb phrase and encodes information on the endpoint of an event. The latter is found at the edge of the verb phrase and demarcates the boundary of a particular domain of syntax, L-syntax. Although languages vary in their use of these projections and in the way they encode the endpoints of events, the author argues that the comparison of a number of languages and the analysis of a range of constructions results in the emergence of a consistent picture. While much of the discussion involves Austronesian languages such as Malagasy and Tagalog, other languages such as French, Spanish, Swedish, Scots Gaelic, Chinese, Japanese, Navajo, Slave, and Kalagan are discussed. Syntactic and morphological data from these languages are used to illuminate the details of the phrase structure of the verbal predicate. These data also aid in understanding how phrase structure is used to express certain facets of language, such as event structure, aspectual verb classes, productive and lexical causatives, derived objects, agents and causes, and coerced structures.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Phonetics --- Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Verb phrase. --- Austronesian languages --- Malay-Polynesian languages --- Malayo-Polynesian languages --- Predicate (Grammar) --- Verb phrase --- Phrasal verb --- Predicate --- Verbals --- Linguistics --- Philology

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Author(s)Bacskai-Atkari, JuliaCollectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)LanguageEnglishShow full item recordThis book provides a new analysis for the syntax of comparatives, focusing on various deletion phenomena affecting the subclause. In particular, the proposed account shows that Comparative Deletion is merely a surface phenomenon that can be drawn back to the overtness of the comparative operator and the availability of lower copies of a movement chain, and it is thus subject to both language-internal and cross-linguistic variation. The main focus of the book is on English, yet other languages are also discussed for comparative purposes, with the aim of showing what the idiosyncratic properties of English comparatives are.

Inglés --- English language --- Deletion. --- Syntax --- Germanic languages --- Linguistics --- Adjective --- Ellipsis --- Hungarian language --- Lexical verb --- Polish language --- Predicate (grammar) --- Specifier (linguistics) --- Verb --- Verb phrase ellipsis

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Complex predicates can be loosely defined as a sequence of items that behave as a single predicate, projecting a single argument structure within a clause. Each of the members of the predicate contributes part of the information ordinarily associated with a single head. The present volume presents a collection of theoretical linguistic results on the study of complex predicates in different perspectives and with a variety of approaches. Important empirical and theoretical issues cutting across various subfields of linguistics are being addressed in this book, such as : • Syntactic and semantic modeling of complex predicate formation: compositionality, argument structure, event structure. • Differences between syntactic and morphological processes of lexeme formation. • Typological and diachronic issues in complex predicate formation. • Neo-Davidsonian analyses of abstract predicate decomposition and its morphological correlates Contributors are: Ane Berro, Denis Creissels, Hannah Gibson, Adele Goldberg, Lutz Marten, Annie Montaut, Léa Nash, Pooja Paul, Pollet Samvelian, Peter Svenonius, and Susanne Wurmbrand.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Syntagme verbal --- Syntaxe --- Verb phrase. --- Syntax. --- Grammar --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Predicate (Grammar) --- Verb phrase --- Phrasal verb --- Predicate --- Verbals --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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This book is concerned with a class of copular clauses known as specificational clauses, and its relation to other kinds of copular structures, predicational and equative clauses in particular. Based on evidence from Danish and English, I argue that specificational clauses involve the same core predication structure as predicational clauses - one which combines a referential and a predicative expression to form a minimal predicational unit - but differ in how the predicational core is realized syntactically. Predicational copular clauses represent the canonical realization, where the referential expression is aligned with the most prominent syntactic position, the subject position. Specificational clauses involve an unusual alignment of the predicative expression with subject position. I suggest that this unusual alignment is grounded in information structure: the alignment of the less referential DP with the subject position serves a discourse connective function by letting material that is relatively familiar in the discourse appear before material that is relatively unfamiliar in the discourse. Equative clauses are argued to be fundamentally different.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Clauses. --- Syntax. --- Verb phrase. --- Predicate (Grammar) --- Verb phrase --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Clauses --- Phrasal verb --- Predicate --- Verbals --- Sentences --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax