32.890, Books: Roots in progress: Cavirani-Pots

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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 22:35:57
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Roots in progress: Cavirani-Pots

 


Title: Roots in progress 
Subtitle: Semi-lexicality in the Dutch and Afrikaans verbal domain 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/roots-in-progress-semi-lexicality-in-the-dutch-and-afrikaans-verbal-domain 


Author: Cora Cavirani-Pots

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933387 Pages: 369 Price: Europe EURO 38


Abstract:

This thesis investigates semi-lexicality in the Dutch and Afrikaans verbal
domain. The approach to semi-lexicality is an approach of grammaticalisation:
semi-lexicality is the result of a grammaticalisation process. The main
theoretical proposal of this thesis is that there are two stages of
semi-lexicality, which have two different underlying syntactic structures. The
first stage is the diachronic predecessor of the second stage. In the first
stage, a semi-lexically used vocabulary item is a root Merged in the low part
of the functional domain of a lexically used root. In the second stage, the
root of the semi-lexically used vocabulary item is first Merged in a separate
workspace with a functional head F. This complex head is then Merged in the
functional domain of a lexically used root. This proposal is put to work in
two case studies on semi-lexicality in the verbal domain. The first case study
deals with two semi-lexically used verbs in Dutch: hoeven ‘need’ and zitten
‘sit’. In this case study, it is shown that these verbs are semi-lexical to
different degrees. Furthermore, it is shown that the different degrees of
semi-lexicality have a different impact on the amount of morphosyntactic
variation and optionality in verb clusters containing these verbs. The second
case study deals with the semi-lexical use of motion and posture verbs in
Afrikaans. As in the first case study, in this case study it is shown how the
degree of semi-lexicality of these verbs influences the amount of
morphosyntactic variation and optionality these verbs exhibit.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): Afrikaans (afr)
                     Dutch (nld)


Written In: English  (eng)

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