Presenting and predicating lower events

Buchbeitrag

The effects of different forms of predication have been insightfully (and almost exclusively) studied for 'simple' cases of predication, of which the 'presentational sentence' is maybe the paradigm instantiation. It is the aim of this paper to show that thc same kind of effects as well as in fact the same kind of structures are present at embedded levels in thematically and otherwise more complex structures. Beyond presentational sentences, 'unaccusative' experiencing constructions involving a dative subject, 'double object constructions' and - to a lesser extent - spraylload constructions are discussed. For all of these, it is argued that they comprise a predication encoding the ascription of a transient temporal property to a location. On this basis, a proposal is made as to how the scope asymmetry between the two arguments involved in the colistructions can be explained. Furthermore, a proposal is made as to how what has been called 'argument shift' is motivated.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Thematische Relation ; Syntax ; Semantik ; Prädikativsatz ; Prädikation ; Englisch ; Deutsch

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Brandt, Patrick
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Berlin : Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
• (when): 2015-09-24

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-41702
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