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Complementation

Author : Kaoru Horie
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027238863

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Complementation by Kaoru Horie Pdf

Complementation, i.e. predication encoded in argument slots, is well-renowned for its syntactic and semantic variability across languages. As such, it poses a tantalizing descriptive/explanatory challenge to linguists of any theoretical persuasion. Recent developments in Cognitive and Functional-typological linguistics have enabled researchers to address various unexplored research questions on complementation phenomena. The seven papers included in this volume represent the most recent endeavors to explore cognitive-functional foundations of complementation phenomena from various theoretical perspectives (Cognitive Grammar, Mental Space Theory, Typology, Discourse-functional linguistics, Cognitive Science). The seven papers are prefaced by an introductory chapter (Kaoru Horie and Bernard Comrie) which situates the current volume within the major complementation studies of the past forty years. This work presents a new theoretical venue of complementation studies and enhances our understanding of this complex yet intriguing syntactic and semantic phenomenon.

Complementation

Author : R. M. W. Dixon,Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191516429

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Complementation by R. M. W. Dixon,Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald Pdf

This book explores the variety of types of complementation found across the languages of the world and their grammatical properties and meanings. It shows how languages differ in the grammatical properties of complement clauses and in the types of verbs which take them, and explores the complement strategies deployed by languages which lack a complement clause construction. The book includes detailed studies of particular languages, including Akkadian, Israeli, Jarawara, and Pennsylvania German. These are framed by R. M. W. Dixon's introduction, which sets out the range of issues, and his conclusion, which draws together the evidence and the arguments.

Complementation

Author : Evelyn N. Ransom
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027279187

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Complementation by Evelyn N. Ransom Pdf

This book presents a stage in the evolution of a theory of modality meanings and forms. It covers exclusively complements. There are two questions that this book addresses. Can one find a small, finite set of meanings which systematically underlies the enormous variety of meanings found in complements? And can one make any predictions from this set of meanings about the variety of forms they take? The answer to both questions is yes. The author convincingly shows how a multiplicity of sentence meanings and forms can be accounted for by breaking down sentence meaning into a small set of modules and howing how these modules combine to express certain meanings and how complement forms are related to them and their combinations.

Non-finite Complementation

Author : Thomas Egan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401205542

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Non-finite Complementation by Thomas Egan Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive guide to the way speakers of British English use infinitive and –ing clauses as verbal complements. It contains details of the non-finite complementation patterns of over 300 matrix verbs, with a particular emphasis on verbs that occur with more than one type of non-finite complement. Drawing upon data from the British National Corpus, the author shows that some of the views which are to be found in the existing literature on these sorts of clauses are in conflict with the evidence of actual usage. He also shows that there is actually much more regularity in this area than has often been taken to be the case. Moreover, this regularity is shown to be motivated by cognitive-functional factors. An appendix contains details of the relative frequency of all of the constructions dealt with in the study, together with an example of each of them. The book is of interest to language teachers as well as linguists, both theoretical and applied.

Complementation and Case Grammar

Author : Martti Juhani Rudanko
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0887069312

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Complementation and Case Grammar by Martti Juhani Rudanko Pdf

This book offers a new and compendious account of important verbal patterns in present-day English. Serving as a central source of data, it updates and refines earlier research contributing to the syntactic and semantic description of English. Rudanko establishes an original framework, and systematically analyzes patterns of complementation using the tool of case grammar. The examination of Control, or EQUI, is a common theme and an important problem for transformationalists, and English syntacticians will value Rudanko's work on infinitive complements.

Adjective Complementation

Author : Ilka Mindt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027287267

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Adjective Complementation by Ilka Mindt Pdf

This is the first empirical study to focus on adjectives complemented by that-clauses. The in-depth analysis of more than 50,000 cases taken from the British National Corpus gives comprehensive insights into hitherto neglected relations of lexis and grammar. The result of this corpus-driven study is a novel classification of adjectives based on co-occurrence patterns and corroborated with the help of statistical means. The inductive analysis of corpus data offers new perspectives on and innovative descriptions of well-known phenomena of English grammar, such as extraposition or the resultative construction so...that. It is based on a new methodological approach, which looks at mutual relations of both lexis and grammar in unprecedented ways.

Perspectives on Complementation

Author : M. Höglund,P. Rickman,J. Rudanko,J. Havu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137450067

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Perspectives on Complementation by M. Höglund,P. Rickman,J. Rudanko,J. Havu Pdf

This book presents the latest work in the field of complementation studies. Leading scholars and upcoming researchers in the area approach complementation from various perspectives and different frameworks, such as Cognitive Grammar and construction grammars, to offer a broad survey of the field and provide thought-provoking reading.

Clausal Complementation in South Slavic

Author : Björn Wiemer,Barbara Sonnenhauser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110725858

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Clausal Complementation in South Slavic by Björn Wiemer,Barbara Sonnenhauser Pdf

This volume assembles contributions addressing clausal complementation across the entire South Slavic territory. The main focus is on particular aspects of complementation, covering the contemporary standard languages as well as older stages and/or non-standard varieties and the impact of language contact, primarily with non-Slavic languages. Presenting in-depth studies, they thus contribute to the overarching collective aim of arriving at a comprehensive picture of the patterns of clausal complementation on which South Slavic languages profile against a wider typological background, but also diverge internally if we look closer at details in the contemporary stage and in diachronic development. The volume divides into an introduction setting the stage for the single case-studies, an article developing a general template of complementation with a detailed overview of the components relevant for South Slavic, studies addressing particular structural phenomena from different theoretical viewpoints, and articles focusing on variation in space and/or time.

Sentential Complementation in Spanish

Author : Carlos Subirats Rüggeberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789027231239

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Sentential Complementation in Spanish by Carlos Subirats Rüggeberg Pdf

The aim of the present work is to study the main distributional and transformational properties of verbs with a non-prepositional sentential complement in the two-argument sentence in Spanish.

Corpora and Complementation

Author : Martti Juhani Rudanko
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0761817948

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Corpora and Complementation by Martti Juhani Rudanko Pdf

Investigates the system of English predicate complementation over the last three centuries. Chapters shed light on central parts of the system, involving matrix nouns, adjectives, and verbs that select complement clauses. Synchronic and diachronic corpora of the language serve as essential sources of data. Three chapters examine variation between two types of complements introduced by the word to. Other chapters deal with the into -ing pattern, adjectives from two semantic domains, and sentential complements of negative verbs of avoiding, failing, and refraining. Author information is not given. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

Configurations of Sentential Complementation

Author : Johan Rooryck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134660902

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Configurations of Sentential Complementation by Johan Rooryck Pdf

The investigation of sentential complementation focuses on properties of sentences that are embedded in other sentences. This book brings together a variety of studies on this topic in the framework of generative grammar. The first part of the book focuses on infinitival complements. The author provides new perspectives on raising and control, longstanding problems in infinitival complementation. He then examines the problem of clitic ordering in infinitives in Romance languages. The second part of the book addresses various aspects of Wh- sentences: extraction from negative and factive islands, agreement in relative clauses, and the relation between French relative and interrogative qui and que.

Changes in Complementation in British and American English

Author : J. Rudanko
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230305199

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Changes in Complementation in British and American English by J. Rudanko Pdf

The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation and change in recent centuries, and identifies explanatory principles to account for this change and variation, with evidence from large electronic corpora of both British and American English.

Complementation of Normal Subgroups

Author : Joseph Kirtland
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783110480214

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Complementation of Normal Subgroups by Joseph Kirtland Pdf

Starting with the Schur-Zassenhaus theorem, this monograph documents a wide variety of results concerning complementation of normal subgroups in finite groups. The contents cover a wide range of material from reduction theorems and subgroups in the derived and lower nilpotent series to abelian normal subgroups and formations. Contents Prerequisites The Schur-Zassenhaus theorem: A bit of history and motivation Abelian and minimal normal subgroups Reduction theorems Subgroups in the chief series, derived series, and lower nilpotent series Normal subgroups with abelian sylow subgroups The formation generation Groups with specific classes of subgroups complemented

Question-orientedness and the Semantics of Clausal Complementation

Author : Wataru Uegaki
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031159404

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Question-orientedness and the Semantics of Clausal Complementation by Wataru Uegaki Pdf

This volume explores the compositional semantics of clausal complementation, and proposes a theory in which clause-embedding predicates are uniformly “question-oriented”, i.e., they take a set of propositions as their semantic argument. This theory opens up new horizons for the study of embedded questions and clausal complementation, and presents a successful case study on how lexical semantics interacts with syntax and compositional semantics. It offers new perspectives on issues in epistemology and the philosophy of language, such as the relationship between know-wh and know-that and the nature of attitudinal objects in general. Cross-linguistically, attitude predicates such as know, tell and surprise, can embed both declarative and interrogative clauses. Since these clauses are taken to represent different semantic objects, like propositions and questions, the embedding behavior of these predicates poses puzzles for the compositional semantics of clausal complementation. In addition, the fact that some verbs “select for” a certain complement type poses further challenges for compositional semantics. This volume addresses these issues based on a uniformly question-oriented analysis of attitude predicates, and proposes to derive their variable behaviors from their lexical semantics. The book is essential reading for linguists working on the syntax and semantics of clausal complementation, as well as those interested in the role of lexical semantics in compositional semantics. It will also be valuable for philosophers who are interested in applying linguistic tools to address philosophical problems.

Theory of Complementation in English Syntax

Author : Joan Bresnan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315458717

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Theory of Complementation in English Syntax by Joan Bresnan Pdf

The subject of this study, first published in 1979, is the role of the complementizer in English syntax and its implications for syntactic theory. It is argued that the familiar transformational treatment of complementizers is inadequate, and that they must be specified in deep structure by means of a Phrase Structure rule. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.