<i>By</i>Phrases in Passives and Nominals

Bruening, Benjamin

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“…Im Gegensatz zu Typ-B-Analysen ist aber bei Typ C-Analysen das externe Argument, obschon grundsätzlich repräsentiert, für syntaktische Operationen nicht zugänglich. Solche Analysen sind verfolgt worden u. a. von Bach (1980), Keenan (1980), Stechow (1987Stechow ( , 1992, Bruening (2013Bruening ( , 2014, Hole (2014), 1 Hier und im Folgenden sind wir fast ausschließlich mit dem Vorgangspassiv befasst; wir blenden das Zustandspassiv im Deutschen größtenteils (abgesehen von einer kurzen Bemerkung in Abschnitt 4) aus. Eine klassische Annahme ist, dass das Zustandspassiv ("adjectival passive" im Englischen;vgl.…”

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Grammatiktheorie und Empirie in der germanistischen Linguistik

2018

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Dieses Werk ist lizenziert unter der Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Lizenz. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Bibliografische Information der Deutschen NationalbibliothekDie Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.dnb.de abrufbar. VorwortWo steht die germanistische Sprachwissenschaft aktuell? Der vorliegende Band mit dem Titel "Grammatiktheorie und Empirie in der germanistischen Linguistik" ist der erste Teil einer auf sechs Bände angelegten Reihe, die eine zwar nicht exhaustive, aber doch umfassende Bestandsaufnahme derjenigen Themenfelder innerhalb der germanistischen Linguistik bieten will, die im Kontext der Arbeiten des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache in den letzten Jahren für das Fach von Bedeutung waren und in den kommenden Jahren von Bedeutung sein werden (und von denen nicht wenige auch vom Institut für Deutsche Sprache bedient wurden und werden). Jeder einzelne Band behandelt ein abgeschlossenes Themengebiet und steht insofern für sich; in der Zusammenschau aller Bände ergibt sich ein Panorama der "Germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft um 2020".Anlass

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2018

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“…Therefore they are compatible with transitive verbs (30a), with passives (30c), but not with unaccusatives -though an object (internal argument) related comitative remains possible as in (30b). Bruening's (2012) conclusion is that comitatives attach to what Kratzer (1996) calls the Voice layer of the predicate hosting the external argument, i.e. the equivalent of v in Chomsky's (1995) terms.…”

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“…Pylkkänen (2008: 131-132) further argues against the presence of an underlying cause in unaccusatives, based (among others) on the diagnostics that instrument modifiers cannot combine with English unaccusatives, as in (21). Similarly, for Bruening (2012), instruments pattern with by-phrases (and external-argument-oriented comitatives), in being allowed with passives but not with unaccusatives, as in (22). (21) a. John broke the window with a stone.…”

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“…cook(e) & Agt(Shelly)(e) & Participant(baby)(e) Bruening (2012), in adopting the semantic analysis of Yamada for plural forming subjectoriented comitatives, stresses that they are in fact oriented towards an external argument. Therefore they are compatible with transitive verbs (30a), with passives (30c), but not with unaccusatives -though an object (internal argument) related comitative remains possible as in (30b).…”

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Instrumental prepositions and case: Contexts of occurrence and alternations with datives

Franco

Manzini

2017

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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We will argue that instrumentals are the mirror image of dative/genitive obliques. We propose that both sets of adpositions/cases are elementary predicates, expressing a zonal inclusion (partwhole/possession relation); instrumentals reverse the direction of the relation with respect to datives/genitives. Our claim is that with-type morphemes provide very elementary means of attaching extra participants (themes, initiators, etc.) to events (VP or vP predicates) -with specialized interpretations derived by pragmatic enrichment (contextual, encyclopedic) at the C-I interface. We will extend our proposal to account for the observation that the instrumentals can be employed cross-linguistically in triadic verb constructions alternating with datives and we will broaden our discussion to account for dative/instrumental syncretism (eventually including DOM objects), arguing that the inclusion predicate (⊆) corresponding to 'to' or dative case and its reverse (⊇), corresponding to 'with' or instrumental case, may reduce to an even more primitive content capable of conveying inclusion in either direction. Finally, we will address ergative alignments, showing that languages may attach external arguments/agents either as possessors (⊆) or as causers (⊇) of a given event/state, yielding the two most widespread patterns of syncretism of the ergative morpheme, that is with either instrumentals or genitives/datives.

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“…Chapter five develops the idea that modal adjectives are uniformly derived from a passive operation (Bruening 2013). According to this view, the suffix always targets an Initiation projection.…”

Section: Nina Is Lovemod[-able] "Nina Is Lovable" = Nina Inspires Lomentioning

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Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Modal Adjectives

Moreira

2016

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics

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This dissertation is broadly concerned with word-formation in Generative Grammar. Particularly, it investigates a class of modal adjectives in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) ending in -vel, as exemplified below in (1):1. (a) O vaso de porcelana é quebrável.The vase of porcelain is break.mod [-able] "The porcelain vase is breakable" = the porcelain vase can be broken (b) Nina é amável. Nina is love.mod[-able] "Nina is lovable" = Nina inspires love and affectionAdjectives like those in (1a) (e.g., audível ' audible', decifrável ' decipherable', recuperável 'retrievable') express a disposition, and are compatible with a possibility reading. Adjectives like those in (1b) (e.g., admirável ' admirable', adorável ' adorable', deplorável ' deplorable') lack the possibility interpretation and express subjectivity (i.e., the "worthy of" reading; notice that admirável ' admirable', for instance, can be paraphrased by 'worthy of being admired'). This variation in modal interpretation is not immediately obvious, and certain adjectives seem to convey both meanings (e.g., English readable: 1. able to be read, 2. enjoyable/ interesting to read). The investigation begins with a question posed by Halle (1973: 11) regarding "how a grammar is to reflect the fact that a derived word quite commonly shares semantic and syntactic properties with the word from which it is derived". Existing theories of modal adjectives in different languages, from a lexicalist perspective, posit a (passive) lexical rule to derive them (Wasow 1977). From a syntactic perspective, (1a) and (1b) reflect the height of attachment of the suffix (i.e., compositional word derivation or idiosyncratic root derivation; see Oltra-Massuet 2010;2014).This dissertation provides a syntactic account in which -vel adjectives are uniformly derived from a passive operation, as defined by Bruening (2013: 35): "[t]he passive is a morphosyntactic operation that prevents the realization of the external argument as an argument." The analysis adopts the system proposed in Ramchand (2008), in which verbal predication can be (maximally) decomposed into three heads: init (initiation), proc (process), and res (result). The adjectival suffix, conceived as a dynamic can expressing susceptibility or disposition, attaches to an unsaturated Initiation projection (i.e., little v). Thus, deverbal adjectives of type in (1a) and (1b) reflect subevental complexity.The dissertation contains six chapters and one appendix. Chapter one is introductory. It presents lexicalist and non-lexicalist approaches to word formation, particularly focusing on adjectives (i.e., modal adjectives and adjectival passives). It discusses the relationship between modal adjectives and passives, mediopassives, and generic sentences, and also the range of modality that -vel expresses (i.e., possibility or subjectivity).Chapter two isolates the main properties that modal adjectives share with the aforementioned constructions, provides a description of the data, discusses the preference for verbal bases and presents exampl...

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ByPhrases in Passives and Nominals

Cited by 149 publications

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Grammatiktheorie und Empirie in der germanistischen Linguistik

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Instrumental prepositions and case: Contexts of occurrence and alternations with datives

Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Modal Adjectives

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