In:Elementary Predicates and Related Categories
Ludovico Franco
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 285] 2024
► pp. vii–viii
Published online: 1 August 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.285.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.285.toc
Table of contents
Preface
ix
Chapter 1.Introduction
1
1.1Theoretical background
1
1.2Oblique devices as ‘part-whole, inclusion’ predicates. Toward a
morpho-syntactic account of ‘case’ syncretism
3
1.3Elementary predicates beyond categories
8
Chapter 2.(Oblique) serial verbs in Creole/Pidgin languages and beyond
16
2.1Serial light verbs as relators
16
2.2Background on serial verbs constructions
21
2.3Goal, benefactive and instrumental serial verbs in Creole/Pidgin
languages: On the (a)symmetry of ‘give’ and ‘take’
24
2.3.1Give serial verb as (⊆) predicates
24
2.3.2Take serial verbs as (⊇) predicates
31
2.4DOM serial verbs
43
2.5Conclusion
48
Chapter 3.A syntactic interpretation of the applicative-causative
syncretism
49
3.1The applicative-causative syncretism
49
3.2Theoretical background: Syncretism beyond
paradigms/categories
54
3.3On the nature of applicative heads: Relations beyond
categories
56
3.4Causatives and the obliquization of the causee
61
3.5The nature of the cross-categorial syncretism: An analysis
63
3.6Conclusion
72
Chapter 4.Axial Parts beyond space: Relational nouns and grammatical categories
73
4.1On the definition of Axial Part, PLACE & PATH
73
4.2Space is not PLACE (nor PATH)
77
4.3Finnish locative puzzles
84
4.3.1The l/s series
84
4.3.2Finnish adpositions
86
4.3.2.1Previous accounts: Pantcheva (2011)
86
4.3.2.2Previous accounts: Asbury (2008)
88
4.3.2.3Previous accounts: Svenonius (2012)
89
4.3.3Axial parts and elementary predicates in Finnish
90
4.3.4Evidence from linguistic variation within the Uralic
family
93
4.4Interim discussion
97
4.5‘Oblique’ non-locative Axial Parts
102
4.6The case of Persian passives
106
4.7Conclusion
113
Chapter 5.Existential sentences in Romance based Creoles: On the relational content of the contextual
domain
114
5.1Introductory remarks
114
5.2Existentials in Romance based Creoles: The data
116
5.3Towards an analysis
127
5.3.1Theoretical background on existentials
127
5.3.2The contextual domain (and the coda) as ‘possessors’
130
5.4Conclusion
133
Chapter 6.The morphosyntax of Italian ethnic adjectives
134
6.1Introductory remarks: Are ethnic adjectives ‘nouns in
disguise’?
134
6.2Background on ethnic adjectives
135
6.3Italian ethnic adjectives and how they are built: An overview
143
6.4A morphosyntactic analysis of ethnic adjectives in Italian
149
6.4.1The relational content of ‘ethnic’
suffixes
149
6.4.2Deverbal nominalization patterns
153
6.4.3A note on Agree (and the connection with Suffixaufnahme)
159
6.4.4The representation of qualifying possessive adjectives
161
6.5Conclusion
168
Chapter 7.The interaction of kinship terms with evaluative morphemes in
Italian
169
7.1The empirical facts and some theoretical background
169
7.2Remarks on evaluatives
173
7.3The morphosyntactic interaction of kinship terms with evaluative
morphemes: An analysis
177
7.4Further issues on possessives, kinship terms and evaluatives
181
7.5Conclusion
185
Chapter 8.Conclusions
186
Bibliography
188
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