28.660, Books: Argument Realisation in Complex Predicates and Complex Events: Nolan, Diedrichsen (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 16:09:53
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Argument Realisation in Complex Predicates and Complex Events: Nolan, Diedrichsen (eds.)

 


Title: Argument Realisation in Complex Predicates and Complex Events 
Subtitle: Verb-verb constructions at the syntax-semantic interface 
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 180  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.180 


Editor: Brian Nolan
Editor: Elke Diedrichsen

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027266125 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027266125 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027266125 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027259455 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027259455 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027259455 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

This book offers a comprehensive investigative study of argument realisation
in complex predicates and complex events at the syntax-semantic interface
across a wide variety of the world’s languages, ranging over languages such as
German, Irish, Sicilian and Italian, Lithuanian, Estonian and other
Finno-Ugric languages, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra from
Australia’s Western Desert region, Japanese, Tepehua (Totonacan, Mexico),
Cheyenne, Mexican Spanish, Boharic Coptic, and Persian. This volume examines
the syntactic variation of complex events, complex predicates and multi-verb
constructions within a single clause where the clause is view as representing
a single event, studying their semantics and syntax within functional,
cognitive and constructional frameworks, to arrive at a better understanding
of their cross linguistic behaviour and how they resonate in syntax. These
constructions manifest considerable variability in cross-linguistic
comparisons of complex predicate formation. In European languages, for
example, typically one of the verbs in a verb-verb construction highlights a
phase of an underspecified event while the matrix verb specifies the actual
event. In contrast, serial verbs require each verb to provide a sub-event
dimension within a complex event that is viewed holistically as unitary in
syntax. This book contributes to an understanding of complex events, complex
predicates and multi-verb constructions across languages, their syntactic
constructional patterns and argument realisation.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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