On the syntactic composition of manner and motion / Maria Luisa Zubizarreta and Eunjeong Oh.

Unlike many books and articles that discuss the relation between constructional meaning and the lexicon, 'On the Syntactice Composition of Manner and Motion' examines one phenomenon in detail: the articulation of manner and motion, in three distinct language families - Germanic, Korean, an...

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Main Author: Zubizarreta, Maria Luisa
Other Authors: Oh, Eunjeong
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Series:Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 48.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Preliminaries to the Lexicon-syntax relation and the variable behavior of manner-of-motion verbs
  • 1.1. motion construction : the main issues
  • 1.2. lexical approach : Levin and Rappaport 1995; Rappaport and Levin 1998
  • 1.3. Some syntactic approaches : Borer 1994, 2005; Ritter and Rosen 1998; Folli 2001
  • 1.4. Hale and Keyser model and some elaborations
  • 1.5. Event boundedness and temporal boundedness
  • 1.6. crosslinguistic analysis of manner-of-motion constructions : a preview of chapters 2 and 3
  • Ch. 2 serial-verb construction and verbs of motion in Korean
  • 2.1. Serial-verb constructions (SVCs) in Korean
  • 2.2. Serial verbs of motion in Korean
  • 2.3. Summary
  • App. 2.1 Some remarks on the aspectual properties of -(e)ci
  • App. 2.2 On distinguishing the "prospective possessor" construction from the "directed-motion" and "benefactive" constructions
  • Ch. 3 Motion verbs in Germanic and Romance
  • 3.1. Germanic
  • 3.2. Romance.