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The typology of adjectival predication
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ISBN: 3110149893 130627544X 3110813580 9783110813586 9783110149890 Year: 1996 Volume: 17 Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter,


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A typology of verbal borrowings
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ISBN: 1282296655 9786612296659 3110219344 9783110219340 9781282296657 9783110219333 3110219336 6612296658 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter,

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The questions as to why most languages appear to have more trouble borrowing verbs than nouns, and as to the possible mechanisms and paths by which verbs can be borrowed or the obstacles for verb borrowing, have been a topic of interest since the late 19th century. However, no truly substantial typological research had been undertaken in this field before the present study. The present work is the first in-depth cross-linguistic study on loan verbs and the morphological, syntactic and sociolinguistic aspects of loan verb accommodation. It applies current methodologies on database management, quantitative analysis and typological conventions and it is based on a broad global sample of data from over 400 languages and the typological data from the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS). One major result of the present study is the falsification, on empirical grounds, of long-standing claims that verbs generally are more difficult to borrow than other parts of speech, or that verbs could never be borrowed as verbs and always needed a re-verbalization in the borrowing language.


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Studies in the Composition and Decomposition of Event Predicates
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ISBN: 1299407714 9400759835 9400759827 9400798016 9789400759824 9789400759831 9789400798014 Year: 2013 Volume: v. 93 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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This detailed, perceptive addition to the linguistics literature analyzes the semantic components of event predicates, exploring their fine-grained elements as well as their agency in linguistic processing. The papers go beyond pure semantics to consider their varying influences of event predicates on argument structure, aspect, scalarity, and event structure. The volume shows how advances in the linguistic theory of event predicates, which have spawned Davidsonian and neo-Davidsonian notions of event arguments, in addition to ‘event structure’ frameworks and mereological models for the eventuality domain, have sidelined research on specific sets of entailments that support a typology of event predicates. Addressing this imbalance in the literature, the work also presents evidence indicating a more complex role for scalar structures than currently assumed. It will enrich the work of semanticists, psycholinguists, and syntacticians with a decompositional approach to verb phrase structure.


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Head movement in syntax
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ISBN: 9789027257079 9789027268143 9027268142 9027257078 Year: 2015 Publisher: Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company,

Verbal projections
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ISBN: 3484304200 3110929929 9783110929928 9783484304208 Year: 2000 Volume: 420 Publisher: Tübingen : Niemeyer,

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This collection of articles examines lexical and grammatical aspects of verbal elements and phrases in the context of recent generative research. General questions concern definitions of grammatical categories, classifications of auxiliaries and particles as functional categories, and problems of economy. Lexical matters range from affixation and category change (participles, gerunds) to semantic representations of specific verb classes (possessive, phrasal and intransitive verbs). The syntactic analyses focus on positional arrangements of aspectual and verbal units (V2, Verb Raising).

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