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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791291203321

Autore

Landau Idan

Titolo

The locative syntax of experiencers / / Idan Landau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010

ISBN

0-262-26610-5

1-282-69462-6

9786612694622

0-262-25902-8

Descrizione fisica

vi, 165 p. : ill

Collana

Linguistic inquiry monographs ; ; 53

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Locative constructions

Semantics - Psychological aspects

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 and index.

Sommario/riassunto

A new account of the peculiar syntax of psychological verbs argues that experiencers are grammaticalized as locative phrases. Experiencers--grammatical participants that undergo a certain psychological change or are in such a state--are grammatically special. As objects (John scared Mary; loud music annoys me), experiencers display two peculiar clusters of nonobject properties across different languages: their syntax is often typical of oblique arguments and their semantic scope is typical of subjects. In The Locative Syntax of Experiencers, Idan Landau investigates this puzzling correlation and argues that experiencers are syntactically coded as (mental) locations. Drawing on results from a range of languages and theoretical frameworks, Landau examines the far-reaching repercussions of this simple claim. Landau shows that all experiencer objects are grammaticalized as locative phrases, introduced by a dative/locative preposition. "Bare" experiencer objects are in fact oblique, too, the preposition being null. This preposition accounts for the oblique psychological properties, attested in case alternations, cliticization, resumption, restrictions on passive formation, and so on. As locatives, object experiencers may undergo locative inversion, giving rise to the common phenomenon of quirky



experiencers. When covert, this inversion endows object experiencers with wide scope, attested in control, binding, and wh-quantifier interactions. Landau's synthesis thus provides a novel solution to some of the oldest puzzles in the generative study of psychological verbs. The Locative Syntax of Experiencers offers the most comprehensive description of the syntax of psychological verbs to date, documenting their special properties in more than twenty languages. Its basic theoretical claim is readily translatable into alternative frameworks. Existing accounts of psychological verbs either consider very few languages or fail to incorporate other theoretical frameworks; this study takes a broader perspective, informed by findings of four decades of research.

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Record Nr.

UNISA996202109503316

Autore

Fearn David <1975->

Titolo

Bacchylides [[electronic resource] ] : politics, performance, poetic tradition / / David Fearn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-14943-8

9786611149437

0-19-152696-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (441 p.)

Collana

Oxford classical monographs

Disciplina

884/.01

Soggetti

Laudatory poetry, Greek - History and criticism

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. [363]-400) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of figures; List of abbreviations; Tradition and Contextualization; I. Bacchylides Fragment 5; II. Poetic Tradition and Patronage; PART I. PRAISE; 1. The Politics of Fantasy: Bacchylides on Alexander of Macedon (fr. 20B); 2. Homeric Fire, Aiginetan Glory, Panhellenic Reception: Bacchylides 13; PART II. BACCHYLIDES' DITHYRAMBS AND THE KUKLIOS KHOROS; 3. Bacchylides and the Kuklios Khoros: Performance, Genre, and Reception; 4. Contexts; 5. Bacchylides 15: Troy in Athens; Appendix 1. Dating Bacchylides 13;



Appendix 2. A New Reconstruction of Bacchylides 13.155-67; References

Index of Passages CitedGeneral Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X; Z

Sommario/riassunto

An original and wide-ranging study of the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides, exploring his engagement with poetic tradition and evaluating the complex relationship of the poetry to its multiple contexts of performance. - ;Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition combines close literary analysis of Bacchylides' poetry with detailed discussion of the central role poetry played in a variety of differing political contexts throughout Greece in the early fifth century BC. In Bacchylides' praise poetry, David Fearn argues, the poet manipulates a wide range of earlier Greek literature not only