TY - BOOK AU - Nolan,Brian AU - Diedrichsen,Elke TI - Argument Realisation in Complex Predicates and Complex Events: Verb-verb constructions at the syntax-semantic interface T2 - Studies in Language Companion Series SN - 9789027266125 AV - P281.A685 2017 U1 - 415/.6 PY - 2016/// CY - Amsterdam/Philadelphia PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company KW - Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb phrase KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Argument Realisation in Complex Predicates and Complex Events -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction. Argument realisation in complex predicates and complex events at the syntax-semantic internface -- References -- 1. The syntactic realisation of complex events and complex predicates in situations of Irish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Situations and complex events -- 3. Nexus-juncture relations and complex predications -- 4. The nature of complex events in situations -- 4.1 transition: e1 into e2 -- 4.2 sequence - e1 before e2 -- 4.3 e1 simultaneous with e2 -- 4.3.1 e1 simultaneous with e2 - no location specified -- 4.3.2 e1 simultaneous with e2 - temporal location specified -- 4.3.3 e1 simultaneous with e2 - spatial location specified -- 4.3.4 Dative subject -- 4.4 Subordination -- 4.5 Complex predicates -- 4.5.1 Phase -- 4.5.2 Modifying subevents -- 5. Discussion -- References -- 2. Pleonasm in particle verb constructions in German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bracket structure topology in German -- 3. Verbs with separable prefixes -- 3.1 The semantic contribution of the particle -- 3.2 Non-compositionality of the particle-verb complex -- 3.3 Combinability of particles -- 3.4 Particles in predicative adjective use -- 4. On pleonastic directionals: Which element is redundant? -- 5. Talmy: Windowing of attention in motion event frames -- 5.1 Talmy's cognitive approach to frames and attention -- 5.2 Applying Talmy's model to German pleonastic particle constructions -- 6. Metaphorical uses of Pleonastic Particle Constructions -- 7. Summary of the specifications of the Pleonastic Particle Construction -- 8. Conclusion and outlook -- References -- 3. Serial verb constructions and event structure representations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. SVCs in the relevant literature -- 3. Verbal status of serial verbs; 4. Composition and conceptual structures of SVCs -- 5. An RRG analysis of SVCs -- 5.1 Role and reference grammar -- 5.2. Syntactic representations of SVCs -- 5.2.1 Syntactic representations of Non-SVCs -- 5.3 Linking syntax and semantics in SVCs -- 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- 4. Non-conventional arguments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The nothing special hypothesis -- 3. History of 'a': The once-a-coordinate hypothesis -- 4. Distribution of AF vs AI -- 5. Semantic bleaching of V1 -- 6. Event structure and V1 - V2 cohesion -- 7. A continuum to serialization? -- 8. Summing up -- References -- 5. Complex predicates in Lithuanian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Framework, methodology and data -- 2.1 Data -- 2.2 Methodology -- 2.3 Role and reference grammar -- 3. Types of predicates in Lithuanian -- 3.1 Simple predicates -- 3.2 Complex predicates -- 3.2.1 Nominal complex predicates -- 3.2.2 Verbal complex predicates -- 3.2.3 Serial verb constructions in Lithuanian -- 4. Discussion -- References -- 6. Serial verb constructions in Estonian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is the serial verb construction? -- 3. Overview of previous studies of similar phenomena in Finno-Ugric languages -- 4. Serial verb constructions in Estonian -- 4.1 Syntactic status of Estonian SVC -- 4.2 First verbs (V1) in Estonian SVCs -- 5. Corpus study -- 5.1 The etTenTen Corpus -- 5.2 Data and coding -- 5.3 Corpus analysis -- 5.3.1 V1 markers -- 5.3.2 V2 in the SVC -- 5.3.3 Locative and temporal adverbs in SVCs -- 6. Conclusion -- Sources of the examples -- References -- 7. Complex predication in three dialects of Australia's Western Desert -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The nature of complex predicates -- 3. Syntactic complex predicates -- 3.1 Serial verb constructions -- 3.2 Verb-verb compounding -- 4. Morphological complex predicates -- 4.1 Morphological derivation; 4.2 Noun-verb compounding -- 5. Lexical complex predicates -- 6. Concluding discussion -- References -- 8. Complex verbs in Bohairic Coptic -- 1. Subject and aims of the present chapter -- 2. Structure of the chapter -- 3. Introduction -- 3.1 Basic information about Egyptian-Coptic and the corpus examined -- 3.2 Egyptian and Greek in contact -- 3.3 Case: some preliminaries -- 3.3.1 Case, its marking and its functions -- 3.3.2 Case and language contact -- 3.3.3 Case in Ancient Greek -- 4. Complex verbs and their arguments in Bohairic Coptic -- 4.1 Formation strategies of complex verbs -- 4.2 Complex verbs and their valency: An overview -- 4.3 Greek valency patterns in Coptic? -- 4.4 Discussion -- 5. Conclusions: Two subsystems of transitivity in Bohairic Coptic -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 9. The organizational structure of lexical compound verbs in Japanese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminary remarks -- 2.1 Construction Morphology -- 2.2 Compound verbs in an inheritance hierarchy -- 2.3 Classification of compound verbs -- 2.3.1 Two groups of compound verbs -- 2.3.2 Argument structure of compound verbs -- 2.3.3 Linguistic test -- 2.4 Proposal -- 3. Constructional schemas for left-headed compound verbs -- 3.1 Meaning of -hateru -- 3.2 Constructional schemas of -hateru -- 3.3 Representation of -hateru in two dimensions -- 4. Constructional schemas for right-headed compound verbs -- 4.1 The prefixed type -- 4.2 Thematic compound verbs -- 4.2.1 Causing/leading activity-specifying type -- 4.2.2 Resultative state-elaborating type -- 4.2.3 Resultative state-augmentation type -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 10. Verb-verb compounds and argument structure in Tepehua -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Verb-verb compounds -- 2.1 Kinds of compounds -- 2.2 Transitivity of compounds -- 3. Compounding in Tepehua; 4. Verb-verb constructions in Tepehua -- 5. Right-headed verb-verb compounds -- 6. Left-headed verb-verb constructions -- 7. V2 as inflection -- 8. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 11. Multi-verb constructions in Cheyenne -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Cheyenne Language -- 3. Multi-verb constructions in the context of Cheyenne -- 3.1 Definition of the concept of multi-verb constructions -- 3.2 Cheyenne verb structure8 -- 4. Typology of multi-verb constructions in Cheyenne -- 4.2 Primary verb construction -- 4.2.1 Posture construction -- 4.2.2 Construction expressing orientation plus (manner of) motion -- 4.2.3 Construction expressing simultaneous actions -- 4.2.4 Directional construction -- 4.2.5 Instrumental suffix construction -- 4.2.6 Instrumental infix and suffix construction -- 4.2.7 Aspectual construction -- 4.2.8 Modal construction -- 4.2.9 Comitative construction -- 4.2.10 Cause-effect construction -- 4.2.11 Purposive construction -- 4.2.12 Construction expressing sequence of actions or concomitant actions -- 4.3 Secondary verb construction -- 4.3.1 Causative construction -- 4.3.2 Benefactive construction -- 4.3.3 Desiderative construction -- 4.3.4 Process construction -- 4.4 Compound verb construction -- 4.4.1 Construction expressing orientation plus purpose -- 4.4.2 Construction expressing sequence of actions or concomitant actions -- 4.4.3 Possessive construction -- 4.4.4 Aspectual construction -- 4.4.5 Modal construction -- 4.5 Mixed constructions -- 4.5.1 Primary + secondary verb construction -- 4.5.2 Compound+secondary verb construction -- 4.5.3 Compound + primary verb construction -- 5. Summary -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- 12. Feelings as emotion, attitude, and viewpoints -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The semantics of 'sentir' 'to feel' -- 3. The corpus under analysis; 4. 'Sentir' taking nominal complements -- 5. 'Sentir' taking clausal complements -- 6. 'Sentir' taking predicative elements -- 7. Final discussion -- References -- 13. Nominal predication in Persian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aktionsart types tests -- 2.1 Daštæn 'have' -- 2.2 kærdæn 'do' -- 2.3 šodæn 'become' -- 2.4 dadæn 'give' -- 2.5 zædæn 'hit/strike' -- 2.6 didæn 'see' -- 2.7 gereftæn 'take' -- 2.8 yaftæn 'find' -- 2.9 kešidæn 'pull' -- 2.10 xordæn 'eat' -- 2.11 amædæn 'come' -- 2.12 ræftæn 'go' -- 2.13 aværdæn 'bring' -- 2.14 bæxšidæn 'give/forgive' -- 2.15 bordæn 'take/carry' -- 2.16 gozaštæn 'put' -- 3. Role of the nominal element in Aktionsart type -- 4. Nominal element semantics -- 5. Logical structure -- 6. Summary -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 14. Concept structuring in Persian PP-centric complex predicates -- 1. Complex Predicates -- 2. The status of LV and NV in Persian CPs: A recap -- 3. Concept Structuring System -- 3.1 Configurational system -- 3.2 Perspectival system -- 3.3 Attentional system -- 3.4 Force dynamics -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1 be næzær amædæn /æz næzær gozærandæn/ dær næzær gereftæn / dær næzær daštæn -- 4.2 be donya amædæn / az donya ræftæn -- 4.3 be sugvari nešæstæn/ be nezaʔ bærxastæn -- 4.4 dær xætær oftadæn/ be xætær oftadæn/ dær xætær ændaxtæn/ be xætær ændaxtæn -- 4.5 be dæst aværdæn/ be dæst amædæn/ be dæst gereftæn/ æz dæst dadæn/ æz dæst ræftæn -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Index UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4791149 ER -