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Record Nr.

UNINA9910150346003321

Autore

Hubbard Philip L

Titolo

Syntax of the albanian verb complex

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Routledge, 2016

ISBN

1-138-20721-7

1-315-46281-8

1-315-46279-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (146 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Routledge Library Editions : Syntax ; ; Volume 11

Disciplina

491/.9915

Soggetti

Albanian language - Verb phrase

Albanian language - Syntax

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1985 by Garland Publishing, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

I. Preliminaries -- II. Verb morphology : the active and the non-active systems -- III. Other non-active constructions -- IV. Dative clitics -- V. Lexical-interpretive approaches to the Albanian data -- VI. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This work, first published in 1985, is an analysis of the syntax of the Albanian verb complex. The term "verb complex" is defined here as the verb stem and its conjugational endings, together with the perfect auxiliaries and verb clitics. In a wider sense the verb includes the verb and its central arguments: subject, direct object, and indirect object. The analysis is presented in a somewhat expanded version of the relational grammar framework of Perlmutter and Postal (1977). It is argued that by assuming the existence of multiple levels in the syntactic structure of a clause, it is possible to account for the distribution of active and non-active verb forms over the various constructions of Albanian with a single generalisation. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.