Typological constraints on the verbal incorporation of adjuncts

Authors

  • Elia Hernández Socas Universität Leipzig Alemania
  • Héctor Hernández Arocha Universität Erfurt Alemania

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.48.04

Keywords:

particle-verb constructions (Partikelverben), satellite-framed languages, adjuncts, secondary predication, CCG

Abstract

The aim of the present contribution is to define how can verb particle constructions in both satellite-framed languages like Germanic, Ancient Greek or Latin and verb-framed languages like Romance (Talmy, 2000) be analyzed in a unified semantic model, which is compatible with the framework of Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG: Steedman, 2000; Baldridge and Hoyt, 2015). It is argued that the syntactic-semantic type postulated for local adjuncts as well as the type of semantic modification rule applied to compose such structures can predict not only the combinatorial distribution of motion verbs in Germanic, as opposed to Romance, but also the behaviour of cross-categorial domains like indirect/direct causation, subordination and secondary predication among several lexical classes. Finally, it is explained how it is possible for Romance to assume the syntactic expression of satellite structures, even if this language family does not belong to the satellite-framed typology.

Author Biographies

Elia Hernández Socas, Universität Leipzig Alemania

Institut für Angewandte Linguistik und Translatologie (Departamento de Lingüística Aplicada y Translatología

Héctor Hernández Arocha, Universität Erfurt Alemania

Lehrstuhl für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft (Cátedra de Lingüística Germánica)

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Published

2020-06-30

How to Cite

Hernández Socas, E. ., & Hernández Arocha, H. . (2020). Typological constraints on the verbal incorporation of adjuncts. Onomázein, (48), 69–106. https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.48.04

Issue

No. 48: 2020

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