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| Author | : Seizi Iwata |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2008-06-09 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027291047 |
Download Locative Alternation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The aim of the present volume is two-fold: to give a coherent account of the locative alternation in English, and to develop a constructional theory that overcomes a number of problems in earlier constructional accounts. The lexical-constructional account proposed here is characterized by two main features. On the one hand, it emphasizes the need for a detailed examination of verb meanings. On the other, it introduces lower-level constructions such as verb-class-specific constructions and verb-specific constructions, and makes full use of these lower-level constructions in accounting for alternation phenomena. Rather than being a completely new version of construction grammar, the proposed lexical-constructional account is an automatic consequence of the basic tenet of constructional approaches as being usage-based.
| Author | : Beth Levin |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 1993-09 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0226475336 |
Download English Verb Classes and Alternations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to shared meaning and behavior. Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning influences its syntactic behavior and develops it into a powerful tool for studying the English verb lexicon. She shows how identifying verbs with similar syntactic behavior provides an effective means of distinguishing semantically coherent verb classes, and isolates these classes by examining verb behavior with respect to a wide range of syntactic alternations that reflect verb meaning. The first part of the book sets out alternate ways in which verbs can express their arguments. The second presents classes of verbs that share a kernel of meaning and explores in detail the behavior of each class, drawing on the alternations in the first part. Levin's discussion of each class and alternation includes lists of relevant verbs, illustrative examples, comments on noteworthy properties, and bibliographic references. The result is an original, systematic picture of the organization of the verb inventory. Easy to use, English Verb Classes and Alternations sets the stage for further explorations of the interface between lexical semantics and syntax. It will prove indispensable for theoretical and computational linguists, psycholinguists, cognitive scientists, lexicographers, and teachers of English as a second language.
| Author | : Ursula Brinkmann |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 1997-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027224811 |
Download The Locative Alternation in German Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This monograph deals with the locative alternation in German, a change in the argument structure of verbs like spray and load. Like most argument structure changes, the alternation is both productive and constrained: new forms may be derived, but not from all candidate verbs. This raises a learnability problem: how can children determine, in the absence of negative evidence, which verbs participate in the alternation? The Locative Alternation in German tries to answer this question by providing an in-depth analysis of the conditions that verbs must meet in order to participate in the alternation. Most importantly, transitive verbs must allow speakers to presuppose the existence of their theme argument. This condition requires the theme to be incremental so that it can be conceived of as nonindividuated (or unbounded) when the verb is used in the alternative syntactic frame. The Nonindividuation Hypothesis splits locative verbs into two types, mass verbs (like spray) and count verbs (like load), and it predicts that children acquire the alternation first for mass verbs, whose theme must be a substance and so is nonindividuated by default. Support for this hypothesis is provided in the empirical part of the book, which also provides evidence against claims in the literature that children acquire the alternation by drawing on an innate Affectness Linking Rule.
| Author | : Angeliek Van Hout |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 359 |
| Release | : 2013-10-11 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1135670811 |
Download Event Semantics of Verb Frame Alternations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Using both theoretical and language acquisition arguments, this study proposes a new model of the lexicon-syntax interface defined in terms of checking event-semantic features. The research is based on Dutch verbs and their possible verb frames (intransitive, transitive, etc.) and two studies of children's Dutch. The model developed from these cases represents more generally the way in which Universal Grammar organizes the lexicon of a language and the mapping system that associates a verb's lexical features with its syntactic projection.
| Author | : Seizi Iwata |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9789027218285 |
Download Locative Alternation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The aim of the present volume is two-fold: to give a coherent account of the locative alternation in English, and to develop a constructional theory that overcomes a number of problems in earlier constructional accounts. The lexical-constructional account proposed here is characterized by two main features. On the one hand, it emphasizes the need for a detailed examination of verb meanings. On the other, it introduces lower-level constructions such as verb-class-specific constructions and verb-specific constructions, and makes full use of these lower-level constructions in accounting for alternation phenomena. Rather than being a completely new version of construction grammar, the proposed lexical-constructional account is an automatic consequence of the basic tenet of constructional approaches as being usage-based.
| Author | : Artemis Alexiadou |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0199571953 |
Download External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective. It focuses particularly on the causative/anticausative alternation, which the authors take to be a Voice alternation, and the formation of adjectival participles. The authors use data principally from English, German, and Greek to demonstrate that the presence of anticausative morphology does not have any truth-conditional effects, but that marked anticausatives involve more structure than their unmarked counterparts. This morphology is therefore argued to be associated with a semantically inert Voice head that the authors call 'expletive Voice'. The authors also propose that passive formation is not identical across languages, and that the distinction between target vs. result state participles is crucial in understanding the contribution of Voice in adjectival passives. The book provides the tools required to investigate the morphosyntactic structure of verbs and participles, and to identify the properties of verbal alternations across languages. It will be of interest to theoretical linguists from graduate level upwards, particularly those specializing in morphosyntax and typology.
| Author | : Taro Kageyama |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 505 |
| Release | : 2016-07-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110477157 |
Download Transitivity and Valency Alternations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of papers is the first book ever published in English that presents detailed analyses of valency and transitivity alternations in Japanese from multifaceted standpoints: morphology, semantics, syntax, dialects, history, acquisition, and language typology.
| Author | : Richa Srishti |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 195 |
| Release | : 2011-07-12 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1443832235 |
Download Hindi Verb Classes and their Argument Structure Alternations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is an endeavour to probe into the areas of Hindi syntax which have been rather under-explored in generative literature. It investigates the syntax and semantics of Hindi verbs and their argument structure alternations within the minimalist framework. In the course of this exploration it examines unaccusativity, unergativity, transitive, causative alternations and passives in Hindi. The book will be of interest to theoretical linguists and computational linguists, as well as to Hindi syntax specialists.
| Author | : Pilar Guerrero Medina |
| Publisher | : Equinox Publishing (UK) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : English language |
| ISBN | : 9781845537449 |
Download Morphosyntactic Alternations in English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume brings together fourteen papers which explore the discourse-pragmatic, semantic, morphological and syntactic factors involved in English morphosyntactic alternations. The contributors to this volume deal with different types of "diathesis alternations" --broadly defined by Levin (English Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation, 1993) as "alternations in the expressions of arguments, sometimes accompanied by changes of meaning" --i.e. transitivity alternations (such as the causative/inchoative alternation and the conative alternation), alternations involving arguments within the VP (such as the Swarm-alternation, and the dative or benefactive alternations), etc. The volume will also include some contributions dealing more generally with the issues of morphological relatedness and verb-specific alternations within functionalist, cognitive and/or constructionist frameworks. The book features a wide range of theoretical approaches, ranging from functionalist models such as Functional Discourse Grammar or the Cardiff Grammar version of Systemic Functional Linguistics to more cognitively-oriented approaches such as Goldberg's Construction Grammar or Fillmore's Frame Semantics. This attempt to describe morphosyntactic alternations within different contemporary theories¬¬ --derivational and non-derivational-- will hopefully contribute to a better understanding of the linguistic phenomena traditionally subsumed under the rubric of morphosyntactic alternation. The book will be of interest to experienced linguists and researchers of a functionalist, cognitivist or even functional-typological persuasion.
| Author | : Aet Lees |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 425 |
| Release | : 2015-06-02 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9004296360 |
Download Case Alternations in Five Finnic Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This corpus study presents a comparative quantitative analysis of the partitive-accusative alternation of object case in five Finnic languages, using Bible texts. Objects of finite, non-finite and impersonal verbs are discussed. It includes a comparison of the use of case in written old Estonian and Finnish, tracing changes through to modern times, with some historical data also from Karelian, Livonian and Veps. The nominative-partitive alternation of copula complements and subjects in existential clauses is also analysed synchronically and diachronically. The review of relevant literature, much of which is in Finnish or Estonian, and explanatory introductions in all sections, are especially useful for those starting to study Finno-Ugric languages, but also for typologists and historical linguists.
