03998nam 2200745Ia 450 991096659450332120200520144314.0978661225438397812822543811282254383978142376129714237612949789027295217902729521210.1075/cal.1(CKB)1000000000032301(SSID)ssj0000159679(PQKBManifestationID)11151850(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000159679(PQKBWorkID)10181272(PQKB)10741532(OCoLC)179153772(MiAaPQ)EBC622592(Au-PeEL)EBL622592(CaPaEBR)ebr10066534(DE-B1597)720578(DE-B1597)9789027295217(EXLCZ)99100000000003230120140724d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFunctional constraints in grammar on the unergative-unaccusative distinction /Susumu Kuno, Ken-ichi Takami1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia John Benjaminsc2004vii, 242 p. illConstructional approaches to language ;v. 1Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9789027218216 9027218218 9781588115553 1588115550 Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-233) and indexes.Functional Constraints in Grammar -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The there-construction and unaccusativity -- 3. The way construction and unergativity -- 4. The cognate object construction and unergativity -- 5. The pseudo-passive construction and unergativity -- 6. Extraposition from subject NPs and unaccusativity -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- References -- Name index -- Subject index -- The series Constructional Approaches to Language.This book examines in detail the acceptability status of sentences in the following five English constructions, and elucidates the syntactic, semantic, and functional requirements that the constructions must satisfy in order to be appropriately used: There-Construction, (One's) Way Construction, Cognate Object Construction, Pseudo-Passive Construction, and Extraposition from Subject NPs. It has been argued in the frameworks of Chomskyan generative grammar, relational grammar, conceptual semantics and other syntactic theories that the acceptability of sentences in these constructions can be accounted for by the unergative-unaccusative distinction of intransitive verbs. However, this book shows through a wide range of sentences that none of these constructions is sensitive to this distinction. For each construction, it shows that acceptability status is determined by a given sentence's semantic function as it interacts with syntactic constraints (which are independent of the unergative-unaccusative distinction), and with functional constraints that apply to it in its discourse context.Constructional approaches to language ;v. 1.Grammar, Comparative and generalSyntaxFunctionalism (Linguistics)Generative grammarGrammar, Comparative and generalSyntax.Functionalism (Linguistics)Generative grammar.415HF 310rvkKuno Susumu1933-329056Takami Ken'ichi1952-220936MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910966594503321Functional constraints in grammar4345968UNINA