By Robert D. Van Valin Jr.
ISBN-10: 9027205728
ISBN-13: 9789027205728
ISBN-10: 9027290334
ISBN-13: 9789027290335
Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface provides on-going study in function and Reference Grammar in a few serious parts of linguistic idea: verb semantics and argument constitution, the character of syntactic different types and syntactic illustration, prosody and syntax, details constitution and syntax, and the syntax and semantics of advanced sentences. In every one of those components there are very important effects which not just enhance the improvement of the idea, but additionally give a contribution to the wider theoretical dialogue. specifically, there are analyses of grammatical phenomena resembling transitivity in Kabardian, the verb-less numeral quantifier building in eastern, and an strange form of advanced sentence in Wari’ (Chapakuran, Brazil) which not just illustrate the descriptive and explanatory energy of the idea, but additionally current attention-grabbing demanding situations to different methods. furthermore, there are papers the consequences and functions of function and Reference Grammar for neurolinguistic learn, parsing and automatic textual content research.
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3 Verbs of ‘expressing disapproval to the addressee’ (X said to Y ‘I think you did something bad, I want you to feel bad because of this’): reprochar “to reproach”, recriminar “to recriminate”, censurar “to censor”, reprobar “to reprove”, criticar “to criticize”. 4 Verbs of ‘expressing self recognition’ (X said to Y ‘I think I did something good’): jactarse “to brag”, vanagloriarse “to take great pride”, alardear “to boast”, presumir “to show off ”, preciarse “to boast”, ufanarse “to glory in, to be proud of ”.
Eds) 2002. Meaning and Universal Grammar. Theory and Empirical Findings, Vol. I. [Studies in Language Companion Series 60]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. M. 2002. Lexical templates and syntactic variation: The syntax-semantics interface of the Old English speach verb secgan. In New Perspectives on Predicate Structure in Functional Grammar. R. J. Perez (Eds), 285–308. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. M. 2004. The syntax-semantics interface of verbs of ‘ordering’ in present-day English and Spanish. In RRG 2004 Book of Proceedings, B.
Japanese adjectives can occur both at the attributive position and at the predicate position. , kusari-kake-no tomato “a half-rotten tomato”), and this is the form of the dnc (see also (14a–b)). npast “(It) is convenient”) (cf. Kuno 1973). (12) a. Kore-wa kaki-kake-da. ’ b. Kore-wa nomi-kake-da. ’ In (12), being following by the copula, the compounds such as kaki-kake write-kake can felicitously occur at the predicate position. On the other hand, some compounds are awkward at the predicate position (13).
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