Complex Predicates: Verbal Complexes, Resultative Constructions, and Particle Verbs in German

Complex Predicates: Verbal Complexes, Resultative Constructions, and Particle Verbs in German
ISBN-10
1575863863
ISBN-13
9781575863863
Category
Foreign Language Study
Pages
468
Language
English
Published
2002-01
Publisher
Stanford Univ Center for the Study
Author
Stefan Müller

Description

Complex Predicates examines a number of linguistic phenomena—including auxiliary and verb combinations, causative constructions, predicatives, depictive secondary predicates, and particle and verb combinations—and uses scrambling and fronting data to determine that all except the depictive secondary predicates should be treated as complex predicates. Müller's analysis of inflection and derivation is compatible with syntactical analysis of particle verbs; as a byproduct, it also solves the particle verb bracketing paradox often discussed in the literature.

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