Verb serialization and object position

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3989467
AutoresTonjes Veenstra (0000-0002-9494-3821, autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen38
Número5
Páginas867-888
Fecha de publicación2000-01-27
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling.2000.014
OpenAlexW2059947410
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas13

This paper discusses the phrase-structure configuration of resultative serial-verb constructions and the position of the object in these constructions. It is argued that the analysis involves a VP-shell configuration in which the second VP is an adjunct to the first VP (cf. Larson 1991). As such, serial-verb constructions are instances of pseudo-complementation, as defined in Seuren (1991). The object is part of the first predicate, and the argument-sharing effect is obtained through operator movement inside the second predicate. The evidence is based on a careful examination of sandhi phenomena, case-licensing mechanisms, extraction patterns (argument as well as adjunct), placement of ideophones, and the (un)availability of parasitic gaps. If serial-verb constructions do reduce to secondary-predication constructions, then the study of verb serialization can shed some new light on an old controversy of linguistic theory, namely the syntactic structure of secondary predication. It is argued that the analysis proposed in this paper can be extended to secondary-predication constructions in nonserializing languages

Linguistics · Object (grammar) · Programming language · Serialization · Verb · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation