Sentential Complementation and the Lexicon
Title | Sentential Complementation and the Lexicon PDF eBook |
Author | Dany Jaspers |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2019-11-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 311087847X |
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Configurations of Sentential Complementation
Title | Configurations of Sentential Complementation PDF eBook |
Author | Johan Rooryck |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2013-04-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1134660901 |
The investigation of sentential complementation focuses on properties of sentences that are embedded in other sentences. This book brings together a variety of studies on this topic in the framework of generative grammar. The first part of the book focuses on infinitival complements. The author provides new perspectives on raising and control, longstanding problems in infinitival complementation. He then examines the problem of clitic ordering in infinitives in Romance languages. The second part of the book addresses various aspects of Wh- sentences: extraction from negative and factive islands, agreement in relative clauses, and the relation between French relative and interrogative qui and que.
Sentential Complementation
Title | Sentential Complementation PDF eBook |
Author | Wim de Geest |
Publisher | |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN |
Clauses Without 'That'
Title | Clauses Without 'That' PDF eBook |
Author | Cathal Doherty |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 157 |
Release | 2014-01-14 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1135714142 |
This Study investigates the syntax of complement and relative clauses in English which lack overt complementizers (clauses without that ). The central analytical claim is that these clauses differ in phrase structure from their synonymous counterparts with overt complementizers. In particular, novel evidence from adjunction facts is used to demonstrate that clauses without that are more appropriately analyzed as bare sentences of the category IP rather than CP with a phonologically null head, a proposal which has since been adopted in many economy-driven approaches to phrase structure. In addition to strong empirical support, the IP-analysis is shown to provide explanations for a variety of related syntactic phenomena, superior to those available under the previous CP-analysis. These include the restricted syntactic distribution of that -less complements, in addition to the adjacency restrictions on that -less relative clauses. The analytical task posed by the that -trace effect is also very much reduced under the IP-analysis. The work also examines the syntax of 'subject contact clauses' (e.g. There's a man wants to see you .), common in many non-standard varieties, including Hiberno-English and establishes that they have all the distinctive properties of other that -less relative clauses. This book will be of interest to a broad variety of readers: scholars working in all areas of generative syntax, specialists in English and Germanic syntax, in addition to researchers in non-standard English and Hiberno-English.
Complements and Constructions
Title | Complements and Constructions PDF eBook |
Author | Martti Juhani Rudanko |
Publisher | University Press of America |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780761822745 |
This brief study applies the notion of a "construction" to preposition complementation patterns in English, and argues that Goldberg's formulation offers a helpful conceptual tool for analyzing prepositional patterns. Particular attention is given to alternative object control structures and the changes transitive verbs and intransitive verbs have undergone over time. Rudanko's credentials are not noted. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Corpora and Complementation
Title | Corpora and Complementation PDF eBook |
Author | Martti Juhani Rudanko |
Publisher | University Press of America |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780761817949 |
Investigates the system of English predicate complementation over the last three centuries. Chapters shed light on central parts of the system, involving matrix nouns, adjectives, and verbs that select complement clauses. Synchronic and diachronic corpora of the language serve as essential sources of data. Three chapters examine variation between two types of complements introduced by the word to. Other chapters deal with the into -ing pattern, adjectives from two semantic domains, and sentential complements of negative verbs of avoiding, failing, and refraining. Author information is not given. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.
Lexical Representations and the Semantics of Complementation
Title | Lexical Representations and the Semantics of Complementation PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Mark Gawron |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2016-11-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1315527316 |
First published in 1983, this book represents an effort to lay the groundwork for a general approach to lexical semantics that pays heed to the needs of a theory of discourse interpretation, a theory of compositional semantics, and a theory of lexical rules. The first chapter proposes a basic framework in which to undertake lexical description and a lexical semantic analogue to the classical syntactic distinction between subcategorized for complement and adjunct. This apparatus for lexical description is expanded in the second chapter. A theory of the semantics of nuclear terms along with a proposed implementation is presented in chapter three. The fourth chapter argues that a number of regular, semantically governed valence alternations could be captured in frame representations that give rise to various kinds of realisation options. The final chapter examines interaction of these phenomena with a general account of prediction or control along with the general framework of lexical representation.