Functional constraints in grammar : on the unergative-unaccusative distinction / / Susumu Kuno, Ken-ichi Takami

• Autore: Kuno Susumu <1933->
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, c2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: vii, 242 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Functionalism (Linguistics); Generative grammar
• Classificazione: HF 310
• Altri autori: TakamiKen'ichi <1952->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-233) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Functional constraints in grammar
• ISBN: 9786612254383; 9781282254381; 1282254383; 9781423761297; 1423761294; 9789027295217; 9027295212
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910966594503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Constructional approaches to language ; ; v. 1.