Preverbs in Complex Denominal Verbs
In this paper I argue that certain complex denominal verbs in Germanic languages (cf. Germ. vergärtnern ('to away-garden')) do not involve a lexical adjunction of a preverb to a denominal base (Stiebels (1998)), but are better analyzed as instantiations of a lexical subordination process (...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2001 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:2231 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/2231 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Lexical syntax Argument structure Conflation processes Complex denominal verbs Sintaxi lèxica Estructura argumental Processos de conflació Verbs denominals complexos |
| Sumario: | In this paper I argue that certain complex denominal verbs in Germanic languages (cf. Germ. vergärtnern ('to away-garden')) do not involve a lexical adjunction of a preverb to a denominal base (Stiebels (1998)), but are better analyzed as instantiations of a lexical subordination process (Spencer and Zaretskaya (1998)). Accordingly, the preverb is to be regarded as part of the main thematic structure, the denominal verb being the subordinate predicate. Unlike Spencer and Zaretskaya (1998), I argue that the lexical subordination process involves a syntactic operation, rather than a semantic one. Basically, the empirical evidence in favor of the present lexical-syntactic approach (cf. Hale and Keyser (1993, ff.)) to the formation of complex denominal verbs is drawn from Talmy's (1985, 1991) typological work on conflation processes. Adopting such a typological perspective I put forward a syntactic explanation of why Romance languages lack those complex denominal verbs involving a lexical subordination process. |
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