The Serial Verb Construction Parameter

ISBN-13: 9780815340430 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 310 str.

Osamuyimen Thompson Stewart

Opis

An investigation of the serial verb construction, this work engages central issues in syntactic theory-complex predicates, clausal architecture and syntactic variation.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction: In Search of Serial Verb Constructions 2. Two Types of SVC's Versus Covert Coordinations 3. Predicate Cleft and Event Quantification in SVC's and CC's 4. Double Objects and Object Sharing in SVCs 5. Comparatove Analysis of SVCs and CCs The Serial Verb Construction Parameter 7. Re-analysis of Serial verb Construction 8. SVC Consequences References Index

O autorze

Osamuyimen Thompson Stewart teaches at the University of British Columbia.