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Resultative secondary predicates in the Baltic languages
The article discusses morphosyntactic and semantic properties of the constructions conveying resultative secondary predication in Lithuanian and Latvian. The Baltic languages have developed specific formal encoding patterns for resultatives although some parallels with neighbouring Slavic and Finnic languages can be inferred. The meaning of the resultative construction in Baltics can be generated in a few ways depending on the semantics and the argument structure of the verb. I propose that actional properties as well as the retention or transformation of the argument structure of the verb allow three types of resultatives to be distinguished.
Some Observations on Resultative Secondary Predicates in Turkish
2019
This paper discusses the extent to which resultative secondary predicates occur in the Turkish language. It is grounded in the cross-linguistic distinctions with respect to resultative constructions among languages. I will determine the essential characteristics of resultative secondary predicates both semantically and syntactically and then I will compare Turkish to some other languages, such as English and German. A resultative is a secondary predicate type which shares some characteristics with depictives. I will first mention their common characteristics based on studies carried out by Schultze-Berndt and Himmelmann (2004) and Himmelmann and Schultze-Berndt (2006), and then address the differences between them. Languages differ from one another with respect to the types of resultative secondary predicates; these differences are based on classes of matrix verbs and on the syntactic category of the result phrase. In the current study, I will specifically try to state the possible types and restrictions concerning resultative secondary predicates in Turkish. I will then further discuss the kinds of constituents which can be controllers of resultative secondary predicates in Turkish.
Some Remarks on Resultative Constructions in Croatian
2008
This paper discusses resultatives, often considered a subgroup of secondary predicates. Resultatives with an adjectival form (i. e., resultatives that can be considered a special form of secondary predicates) occur only rarely in Croatian. This paper highlights the formal and semantic characteristics of these constructions, as well as other possibilities of expressing resultative meaning.
This paper discusses resultatives, often considered a subgroup of secondary predicates. Resultatives with an adjectival form (i. e., resultatives that can be considered a special form of secondary predicates) occur only rarely in Croatian. This paper highlights the formal and semantic characteristics of these constructions, as well as other possibilities of expressing resultative meaning. Key words: resultatives, secondary predicates, depictives, adverbials, adverbial resultatives, resultative meaning of prefixes
Prototypical Predicate Constructions: Evidence from Slavic
36th Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference for Slavic Studies, 1998
While attempting to capture systematic relations between form and meaning, transformational grammar has relied upon several tools for analysis. Though the generative enterprise has promised to capture linguistically significant generalizations and in doing so provide an explanatory account of linguistic phenomena, some of these generalizations are impossible to capture in terms of these tools. This is primarily due to a fundamental shortcoming of the mechanisms employed most often in transformational approaches; that is, that many linguistically significant generalizations cannot be expressed by means of a derivational relationship. This paper attempts to lay the groundwork for the analysis of prototypical transitive predicates, in which syntactic and functional equivalency of constructions is captured in terms of direct surface relationships as opposed to derived equivalencies. This is accomplished by means of a 'fuzzy' evaluation metric on the topicality of signs, based upon data from Polish word order in Siewierska's (1993) study.
On the internal and external syntax of depictive secondary predication
Papers from the International Workshop on Secondary Predication 2021, Masashi Kawashima, Hideki Kishimoto, Kazushige Moriyama (eds.), Kobe: Department of Linguistics, Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University. 1–22., 2022
The internal and external syntax of depictive secondary predication constructions are the topic of this paper. A small clause structure with an internal silent (PRO) subject is developed with particular reference to the morphosyntax of (dis)sociatives in Hungarian. The depictive small clause is integrated into the containing syntax via asyndetic specification, which offers an account of the properties of depictives in the realms of extraction, constituency and linear order.
1999. Some remarks on de-adjectival verbs and resultative secondary predicates (con S. Gumiel)
Catalan working papers in …, 1999
The major aim of this paper consists in showing that de-adjectival verbs like engordar (<en+adjec-tive+ar>, 'fatten'), agrandar (<a+adjective+ar>, 'enlarge') and ampliar (<null affix+adjecti-ve+ar>, 'widen'), share some crucial properties with resultative secondary predicates (Mary pounded the metal flat). A detailed analysis of these constructions seems to indicate that de-adjectival verbs and resultative secondary predicates share a common structure. The structure that we propose for de-adjectival verbs and constructions with resultative secondary predicates is the one suggested by Hale and Keyser for denominal location verbs (bottle, can) and by Keyser (1991, 1992) and , among others, for basic ditransitive constructions (John gave the book to Mary). This hypothesis allows us to explain some co-occurrence restrictions, for example the impossibility of having resultative secondary predicates and Goal arguments with denominal and de-adjectival verbs.