TY - BOOK AU - Ruchot,Thierry AU - Van Praet,Pascale TI - Atypical predicate-argument relations T2 - Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa SN - 9789027266255 AV - P291.A897 2016 U1 - 415 PY - 2016/// CY - Amsterdam/Philadelphia PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company KW - Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb phrase KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- ATYPICAL PREDICATE-ARGUMENT RELATIONS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Part 1. Atypical realization of the main arguments of the verb -- Verbs of pain and accusative subjects in Romanian -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Inalienable Possession Hypothesis vs. the Unaccusativity Hypothesis -- 2. Verbs of pain and their argument structures -- 3. [Mă Vpain NPbody part]: Identifying subjects and objects -- 4. Verbs of pain and the opposition accusative vs. dative subjects -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Non-canonical 'existential-like' constructions in Colloquial Modern Hebrew -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A semantic classification -- 3. The 'coercive force' of the construction and its semantic scope -- 4. Behavioral and coding properties of the construction in CMH -- 5. Structural analysis -- 6. The functional sentence perspective and the speaker's perspectival choice -- 7. Summary and conclusions -- References -- IO realization variation in Spanish reverse psych verb sentences -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Distribution of clitic doubling in psych verb sentences with a post verbal IO -- 3. Any systematic distributional differences between the two variant constructions? -- 4. Implications -- References -- Non-human agents as subjects in English and Dutch: A corpus-based translation study -- Introduction -- 1. Theoretical preliminaries -- 2. Non-human agents as subjects of give and geven -- 3. Corpus data and methodology -- 4. Data-analysis: English instances and their Dutch translations -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Online dictionary items -- Part 2. Valency-changing devices and non-finite verb forms -- The argument-structure configuration of English middle and related structures -- Introduction -- 1. What are middles? -- 2. English diathesis alternations; 3. The representation of argument structure -- References -- Non-categorical categories. Aspect, Voice, Pred and the category of Participles -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A typology of non-finite forms -- 3. Underspecified Participles in Romanian -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Part 3. Variations in transitivity -- The semantic motivation of non-canonical predicative relations: The French transitive construction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The transitive construction -- 3. The meaning of the transitive construction -- 4. The meaning of the transitive construction in contemporary French: Case studies -- 5. The meaning of the transitive construction in contemporary French: Deductions -- References -- Atypical argument structures in French: From metaphorical uses to atypical ones -- Introduction -- 1. Distinction between external and internal causation -- 2. Two descriptive modes of causative events -- 3. Atypic uses -- Conclusion -- References -- Split intransitivity in Lamaholot (East Flores, Indonesia) -- Introduction -- 1. Split intransitivity: A definition -- 2. Agreement morphology in Lamaholot -- 3. Lexically fixed intransitive split (Split-S) -- 4. Fluid intransitive split (Fluid-S) -- 5. Fluid intransitive split and aspect marking -- 6. Split intransitivity and the Lamaholot dialect chain -- Conclusion -- References -- Part 4. Norm variation in predicate-arguments relations -- Geographic variation in a non-canonical infinitive structure with the modal verb brauchen -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpora analysis -- 3. Theoretical accounts -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Verbal constructions in spoken language deviating from the norm: Reflections on atypicality -- 1. Introduction: What is atypical in a language? -- 2. Norms described within "official" grammars -- 3. Norms according to native speaker judgment of correct language use; 4. Norms discovered via the corpus-based study and observations of language use -- 5. Types of typicality and definition of atypicality -- References -- Index of authors -- Index of subjects UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4746974 ER -