By Brian Nolan, Elke Diedrichsen
ISBN-10: 9027206120
ISBN-13: 9789027206121
There's a starting to be understanding of the importance of buildings in grammar within the world’s languages. thus far there has now not been a unmarried quantity that addresses the problems of structures inside of a practical position and Reference Grammar (RRG) account. The publication is a suite of articles that might serve the scholarly group as a reference paintings at the position, position and value of structures inside of this sensible version of grammar. for this reason, this quantity represents the 1st example of cross-linguistic comparability of those very important discourse and syntax-related phenomena. The articles conceal a number of typologically various languages together with German, Irish, Spanish, French, jap, Yaqui, Tepehua (Totonacan), Persian, and English, and so they provide new info at the position of structures, in the RRG concept, in those languages. extra, this quantity contributes in the direction of supplying a accomplished review of grammatical buildings that are primary to our realizing of ways human languages functionality, in a sensible linguistics viewpoint. This scholarly paintings is grounded in a functionally orientated version that makes powerful claims of descriptive and typological adequacy. The e-book will symbolize a useful leap forward in linguistics examine because it applies the RRG theoretical framework to the analyses of structures.
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In fact, there are so many that one major syntactician has commented, It is in fact extremely hard to come up with a list of even ten transitive verbs associated with a really hard requirement that the direct object be explicit rather than implicit. Sometimes I almost begin to think there aren’t really any. (Pullum 2004) As a leading grammar of modern English puts it, “More precisely, transitivity applies to uses of verbs” (Huddleston & Pullum 2002: 216 emphasis in original), presumably meaning rather than to the verbs themselves.
Note in (14c), however, that when the direct object is not expressed by an NP, it invariably has a definite anaphoric reading. Tepehua intransitive verbs, unlike English, may never be used transitively. To occur in a transitive frame, an intransitive verb must undergo some form of overt derivation such as causativization or the addition of an applicative: (15) a. t’aː-ɬtanan-Ø com-walk-ipfv ‘s/he walks with (accompanies) him/her’ (16) a. ka-puː-min-aː irr-via-come-fut ‘s/he/it will come by means of it’ James K.
If the Override Principle were operative in a case like this, it’s not clear what the result might be. ” However, in the Tepehua case, the solution is notably different: the verb-verb compound construction conforms to the morphosyntactic requirement while maintaining the semantics of simultaneity: (53) a. [tʃ’aqʃ-[ɬaː-ʔan]]-ta [chop-dir-go]-prf ‘s/he is going chopping it’ James K. Watters In (53) the head verbs, min, ‘come’, and ʔan, ‘go’, take the applicative prefix ɬiː-,5 making it a transitive verb with the result that the compound meets the constraints of the construction given in (48).
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