Big events, small clauses [[electronic resource] ] : the grammar of elaboration / / edited by Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen and Dag Haug

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (468 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Adjuncts; Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Grammar, Comparative and general - Voice; Semantics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: ER 300
• Altri autori: Fabricius-HansenCathrine HaugDag
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-451) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction / Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine / Haug, Dag T. T. -- Part I: Theoretical issues -- Chapter 1. Co-eventive adjuncts: main issues and clarifications / Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine / Haug, Dag T. T. -- Chapter 2. Closed adjuncts: degrees of pertinence / Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine / Haug, Dag T. T. / Sæbø, Kjell-Johan -- Chapter 3. Open adjuncts: participial syntax / Helland, Hans Petter / Pitz, Anneliese -- Chapter 4. Open adjuncts: degrees of event integration / Haug, Dag T. T. / Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine / Behrens, Bergljot / Helland, Hans Petter -- Chapter 5. Competing structures: the discourse perspective / Behrens, Bergljot / Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine / Solfjeld, Kåre -- Part II: Language-specific case studies -- CHAPTER 6.1. Possessive absolutes in English and their Norwegian correspondences / Hasselgård, Hilde -- CHAPTER 6.2. On absolutes in French, German, and Norwegian / Hobæk Haff, Marianne -- Chapter 7. Open verb-headed adjuncts in New Testament Greek and the Latin of the Vulgate / Haug, Dag T. T. -- Chapter 8. The meaning of Russian converbs / Filiouchkina Krave, Maria -- Chapter 9. Participant- and event-oriented adjectival adjuncts in translation German-Norwegian / Solfjeld, Kare -- Chapter 10. German wobei-clauses in translation / Ramm, Wiebke -- Summary and final discussion / Haug, Dag T. T. / Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine -- References -- Index -- Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: This book investigates specific syntactic means of event elaborationacross seven Indo-European languages (English, German, Norwegian,French, Russian, Latin and Ancient Greek): bare and comitative smallclauses ("absolutes"), participle constructions and related clause-like butnon-finite adjuncts that increase descriptive granularity with respect toconstitutive parts of the matrix event (elaboration in the narrowestsense), or describe eventualities that are co-located and connectedwith but not part of the matrix event. The book falls in twoparts. Part I addresses central theoretical issues: How is the co-eventiveinterpretation of such adjuncts achieved? What is the internal syntax ofparticipial and converb constructions? How do these constructionsfunction at the discourse level, as compared to various finite structuresthat are available for co-eventive elaboration? Part II takes an empiricalcross-linguistic perspective. It consists of five self-contained chapters thatare based on parallel corpora and study either the use of a specificconstruction across at least two of the seven object languages, or how aspecific construction is rendered in other languages.
• Titolo autorizzato: Big events, small clauses
• ISBN: 1-283-85715-4; 3-11-028586-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453153603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Language, Context and Cognition