Valency in Verbs and Verb-Related Structures

ISBN-13: 9783631777121 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 266 str.

Anna Malicka-Kleparska;Maria Bloch-Trojnar

Opis

The volume deals with valency phenomena in verbs and complex deverbal lexical structures (nominalizations, adjectivizations and compounds) in a variety of languages (English, Polish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Greek, Hebrew, Bantu languages and the West African language Ga). The introduction offers an overview of valency related issues and up-to-date linguistic literature. The eleven contributions address specific problems, such as the interaction of valency with argument- and event-structure, properties of light verbs, impersonal constructions, antipassives, analogies between passivization and nominalization/adjectivization, effects of verbal prefixation, and synthetic compounds. The proposed analyses are couched in lexically and syntactically driven approaches.

Spis treści

Valency in verbs and verb-related structures - Passives, unaccusativity, and nominalisation - A DM perspective on the structure of passive potential adjectives in Polish - The omission of internal arguments in verbal and nominal structures - When a verb has more than one valence frame - The interaction between event structure and argument structure in light of some Hungarian and English facts - Synthetic compound adjectives in Polish. A case of the morphology-syntax interface - The morpho-syntax of reflexive impersonals in Polish - The unbearable lightness of HAVE(ing) - Antipassive-like features in selected English and Polish object drop constructions - The internal structure of the synthetic compounds based on the passive participle in English - On the properties of arguments in Polish na-prefixed constructions

O autorze

Anna Malicka-Kleparska is head of the Department of English-Polish Contrastive Studies at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Her main areas of research are English and Slavic morpho-syntax, in particular verbal valency, middle and impersonal structures. She works within the generative paradigm.

Maria Bloch-Trojnar is head of the Department of Celtic Studies at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Her major research interests include morphology and its interfaces with other grammatical components, in particular deverbal nominalisations and adjectivisations, lexicology, in Polish, Irish, and English.