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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457711303321

Autore

Miller D. Gary

Titolo

Complex verb formation [[electronic resource] /] / D. Gary Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 1993

ISBN

1-283-31298-0

9786613312983

90-272-7699-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 95

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb

Grammar, Comparative and general - Word formation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-369) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

COMPLEX VERB FORMATION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; ABBREVIATIONS; Table of contents; PREFACE; 1. GENERAL ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT MORPHOLOGY; 2. THEORIES OF VERBAL MORPHEME ORDER; 3. PRINCIPLES AND PARAMETERS IN MORPHOLOGY; 4 THE FP HYPOTHESIS, COMPOUNDING, AND INCORPORATION; 5. PREPOSITION INCORPORATION; 6. GRAMMATICAL FUNCTION CHANGING PROCESSES; 7. PASSIVE, MIDDLE, AND ERGATIVE; 8. REFLEXIVE AND RECIPROCAL VERBS; 9. REFLEXIVE INCORPORATION AND ITS DISAPPEARANCE IN SCANDINAVIAN; 10. ON THE NOTION 'PASSIVE MORPHOLOGY'; 11. CAUSATIVE VERB FORMATION

12. COMPLEXINTERACTIONSREFERENCES; LANGUAGE INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This investigation of complex verb formation seeks to identify and clarify the way(s) in which a base verb becomes 'complex'. The author carefully considers both the syntactic and the morphological side of this question, and in doing so brings a wealth of data from very diverse languages to bear on claims made about the relationship between syntactic and morphological structure. The work takes the radical position that most data admit of either a syntactic (Phrase Structure) or



lexical analysis because both are likely to be valid - under different circumstances. Both approaches are consistentl