Noun valency / / edited by Olga Spevak

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Disciplina: 415/.5
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Noun phrase; Grammar, Comparative and general - Nominals; Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb; Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Dependency grammar
• Persona (resp. second.): SpevakOlga
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• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Noun Valency; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of content; Abbreviations; Editor's foreword; References; Contributors; Contribution of valency to the analysis of language; 1. Why valency?; 2. What is valency about?; 3. The deletion/absence problem; 4. Labeling of inner participants; 5. Conclusions on verbal valency as a source for the examination of valency of nouns; 6. Valency of nouns; 6.1 Valency of deverbal nouns; 6.1.1 Deverbal nouns derived by syntactic derivation; 6.1.2 Deverbal nouns derived by lexical derivation; 6.2 Primary nouns ; 6.3 Linguistic meaning or cognitive content? 6.4 Conclusions on noun valency; 7. Future perspectives for studies of noun valency; Appendix 1. Inner participants of verbs in PDT 2.0; Appendix 2. Inner participants of nouns (with functions corresponding the IP of verbs) in PDT 2.0; Special valency behavior of Czech deverbal nouns; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Aims and objectives; 1.2 Methods; 1.3 General framework of Functional Generative Description; 1.4 Treatment of deverbal nouns in Czech valency lexicons; 1.5 Outline; 2. General principles determining the surface forms of participants ; 3. Typical valency behavior and typical shifts in the surface forms of participants 4. Special valency behavior; 4.1 Special shifts in surface forms of participants; 4.2 Coexistence of typical and special forms of one participant; 4.3 Reduction of the number of slots in the nominal valency frame; 4.4 Specifically nominal valency complementation; 5. Different meanings of a deverbal noun; 5.1 Derivational suffixes; 5.2 Differences between nouns derived by productive and non-productive means; 6. Special shifts and their impact on the meaning of nouns; 6.1 Nouns undergoing plain semantic shifts ; Nominalizations of Spanish perception verbs at the syntax-semantics interface 1. Introduction; 2. Syntax and semantics of perception verbs; 3. Perception nominalizations: A semantically heterogeneous class; 3.1 Corpus study: The data; 3.2 The semantics of suffixation; 3.3 Polysemy of perception nominalizations; 3.4 First conclusions; 4. Realization of the argument structure of perception nominalizations; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Results; 5. Conclusions; References; Case assignment, aspect, and (non-)expression of patients; 1. Introduction; 2. Nominal valency frames and their surface realization ; 2.1 (Mono)transitive nominalizations
• Sommario/riassunto: This article has two objectives. The first is to present an account of valency nouns in Latin. Lyons' typology (1977) envisaging three orders of entities is useful for predicting the number and type of complements used with various nouns. Expansions of all the categories are distinguished: concrete entities, relational nouns, agent nouns, verbal nouns, and nouns expressing qualities. Furthermore, Latin shows interesting phenomena closely related to noun valency, namely nominalization of verbal notions in Early Latin and the construction of the dominant participle. The second objective is to
• Titolo autorizzato: Noun valency
• ISBN: 90-272-6998-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825643903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in language companion series ; ; Volume 158.