Secondary predication and aspectual structure
| Autor: | Rothstein, Susan Deborah |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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| DOI: | 10.21248/zaspil.17.2000.49 |
| Popis: | This paper presents an analysis of secondary predicates as aspectual modifiers and secondary predication as a summing operation which sums the denotation of the matrix verb and the secondary predicate. I argue that, as opposed to the summing peration involved in simple conjunction, there is a constraint on secondary predication; in the 0 case of depictives, the event introduced by the matrix verb must be PART-OF the event introduced by the secondary predicate, where e1 is PART-OF e2 if the running time of e1 is contained in the running time of e2 and if e1 and e2 share a grammatical argument. I argue resultative predication differs from depictive predication in that the PART-OF constraint holds in resultative constructions between the event which is the culmination of e1 and e2: formally, while depictive predication introduces the statement PART-OF(e1,e2), resultative predication introduces the statement PART-OF(cul(e1),e2). I show that this is all that is necessary to explain the well-known properties of resultative predication. ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 17 (2000): Approaching the grammar of adjuncts : proceedings of the Oslo conference, September 22 - 25, 1999 |
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