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Published 2016
This book deals with atypical predicate-argument relations. Although the relations between predicates, especially verbal, and their arguments have been
long studied, most studies ...
Published 2016
This book deals with atypical predicate-argument relations. Although the relations between predicates, especially verbal, and their arguments have been
long studied, most studies are concerned with typical telic verbs in the past tense, indicative mood, active voice, with all arguments expressed. Recently,
linguists have become interested in other types of predicate-argument relations displaying atypical properties, be they morphological or syntactic, in one
language or cross-linguistically. The articles in this book investigate some of these: argument marking with some special groups of verbs, arguments not
foreseen in the verb valence and contributed by the construction, verbs in idiomatic constructions, valance-changing operations, arguments in thetic
sentences or in participle constructions etc. The authors work within different theoretical frameworks and on various languages, from more current
languages like English, Spanish, French or German, to Hebrew or Lamaholotl, an Austronesian language.
