Origins of Predicates - Evidence From Plains Cree

Informationen zum Autor Tomio Hirose received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 2001. Having spent a year at the University of Leipzig as a research associate, he is currently affiliated with Matsue National College of Technology, Japan. Klappentext This book offers a new perspective on natural language predicates by analyzing data from the Plains Cree language. Contrary to traditional understanding, Cree verbal complexes are syntactic constructs composed of morphemes as syntactic objects that are subject to structurally defined constraints, such as c-command. Tomio Hirose illustrates this in his study of vP syntax, event semantics, morphology-syntax mappings, unaccusativity, noun incorporation, and valency-reducing phenomena. Zusammenfassung Offering a new perspective on natural language predicates by analyzing data from the Plains Cree language, this text demonstrates that what is known about aspectual properties of well-studied languages is also true of the less-studied Cree language. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations and Symbols Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Zero Eventuality Hypothesis Chapter 3 ?P Structures and the Syntax of Affixation Chapter 4 ?P Structures and Noun Incorporation Phenomena Chapter 5 ?P Structures and Operator-Binding Phenomena Chapter 6 Conclusion Chapter 7 Appendix: Deriving Dynamic Unaccusatives via Reflexivization

Product details

• Authors: Tomio Hirose, Hirose Tomio
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.07.2003
• EAN: 9780415967792
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96779-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Outstanding Dissertations in L; Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics; Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism