11.2780, Qs: Non-subcategorized Complements, Hist of Ling

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Subject: 11.2780, Qs: Non-subcategorized Complements, Hist of Ling

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Date:  Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:28:10 -0500
From:  Ren Zhang <renzhang at yorku.ca>
Subject:  non-subcategorized complement

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Date:  Thu, 21 Dec 2000 08:58:08 +1300
From:  Fay Wouk <wouk at ccu1.auckland.ac.nz>
Subject:  History of Linguistics readings

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:28:10 -0500
From:  Ren Zhang <renzhang at yorku.ca>
Subject:  non-subcategorized complement



Dear linguists,
In Chinese, there is  a well-known type of construction in which a verb
is followed by a non-subcategorized complement noun or noun p hrase:
1. xie   zhe-zhi bi
   write this     pen
  "write with this pen"
2. chi shi-tang
    eat dining-hall
   "go to a dining-hall for a meal"
3. xie  hei-ban
   write blackboard
  "write on the blackboard"
4 xi  liang shui
  clean cool water
 "shower with cool water"
It seems there has been no aggreement as to how constructions like these
should be analyzed in Chinese linguistics. My general impression is that
the non-subcategorized complement somehow modifies the action expressed
by the verb in terms of manner. It also conveys new information, as has
been pointed out by some researchers.
I am interested in similar phenomena, if any,  in other languages and
would like to get pointers as to any literature dealing with the issue,
especially those that adopt a semantic perspective to argument
structure.
If there is enough interest, I would post a summary to the list.

Ren Zhang
York University


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 21 Dec 2000 08:58:08 +1300
From:  Fay Wouk <wouk at ccu1.auckland.ac.nz>
Subject:  History of Linguistics readings

Can anyone recommend some good readings on the history of
linguistics, for use in a graduate course? I'm particularly looking
for overviews that cover whole centuries (or more), rather than
detailed discussions of one particular movement, as this will only be
a 2 or 3 week module.

thanks,
Fay

Fay Wouk
f.wouk at auckland.ac.nz

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