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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970187003321

Autore

Maylor B. Roger

Titolo

Lexical template morphology : change of state and the verbal prefixes in German / / B. Roger Maylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, PA, : J. Benjamins, 2002

ISBN

9786612161773

9781282161771

1282161776

9789027297266

9027297266

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 270 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in language companion series, , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 58

Disciplina

435

Soggetti

German language - Suffixes and prefixes

German language - Verb

German language - Morphology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-257) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Ch. 1. Understanding the prefixes: The view so far Ch. 2. The be-verbs in the Figure/Ground schema Ch. 3. The Figure/Ground schema and the Indo-European case system Ch. 4. The non-locational prefixes and the hidden Ground Ch. 5. Deadjectival prefixed verbs Ch. 6. The Dative and the Locative Alternations Ch. 7. The loss of the prefixes in English

Sommario/riassunto

While there have been many attempts in the literature to account for the semantics and syntax of individual German(ic)prefixes, this is the first time that the prefixes have been analysed in a unified way and a framework established that is capable of relating the prefixes to each other and to other areas of the grammar.The templates provide the means whereby a State/Change of State feature interacts with Figure and Ground arguments to generate prefixed verbs, noun- and adjective-incorporating verbs, and oblique case marking on the complements of simplex verbs and adjectives.This book presents a new and potentially powerful theory of lexical morphology that will be of interest not only to morphologists and those working on the grammar of German, but also syntacticians working on the Locative and Dative



Alternations, and linguists whose prime concern is the organization of the lexicon, and the realization of the semantics of change of state predicates.