Atypical predicate-argument relations /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]
Description:	x, 289 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English Multiple
Series:	Lingvisticæ investigationes supplementa, 0165-7569 ; volume 33 Linguisticae investigationes. Supplementa ; v. 33.
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Augmentatives. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphosyntax. Construction grammar. Construction grammar. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Augmentatives. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphosyntax. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10985057

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Other authors / contributors:	Ruchot, Thierry, editor. Praet, Pascale Van, editor.
ISBN:	9789027231437 9027231435 9789027266255
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Text is primarily in English with passages in other languages.
Summary:	This book deals with atypical predicate-argument relations. Although the relations between predicates, especially verbal, and their arguments have been long studied, most studies are concerned with typical telic verbs in the past tense, indicative mood, active voice, with all arguments expressed. Recently, linguists have become interested in other types of predicate-argument relations displaying atypical properties, be they morphological or syntactic, in one language or cross-linguistically. The articles in this book investigate some of these: argument marking with some special groups of verbs, arguments not foreseen in the verb valency and contributed by the construction, verbs in idiomatic constructions, valency-changing operations, arguments in thetic sentences or in participle constructions etc. The authors work within different theoretical frameworks and on various languages, from more current languages like English, Spanish, French or German, to Hebrew or Lamaholotl, an Austronesian language.

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Introduction
2. Part 1. Atypical realization of the main arguments of the verb
3. Verbs of pain and accusative subjects in Romanian
4. Non-canonical 'existential-like' constructions in colloquial Modern Hebrew
5. IO realizations in Spanish reverse psych verb sentences
6. Non-human agents as subjects in English and Dutch
7. Part 2. Valency-changing devices and non-finite verb forms
8. The\argument-structure configuration of English middle and related structures
9. Non-categorical categories
10. Part 3. Variations in transitivity
11. The\semantic motivation of non-canonical predicative relations
12. Atypical argument structures in French
13. Split intransitivity in Lamaholot (East Flores, Indonesia)
14. Part 4. Norm variation in predicate-arguments relations
15. Geographic variation in a non-canonical infinitive structure with the modal verb brauchen
16. Verbal constructions in spoken language deviating from the norm
17. Index of authors
18. Index of subjects

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