rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Inner Aspect
    sub title: The Articulation of VP
  name:
    name part: Travis, Lisa deMena.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 308 p. online resource.
  abstract: This monograph probes the structure of the verb phrase through a cross-linguistic investigation of the syntax and morphology of relevant constructions. In particular, the author provides evidence for two event-related non-lexical projections called "inner aspect" and "event". The former is found within the verb phrase and encodes information on the endpoint of an event. The latter is found at the edge of the verb phrase and demarcates the boundary of a particular domain of syntax, L-syntax. Although languages vary in their use of these projections and in the way they encode the endpoints of events, the author argues that the comparison of a number of languages and the analysis of a range of constructions results in the emergence of a consistent picture. While much of the discussion involves Austronesian languages such as Malagasy and Tagalog, other languages such as French, Spanish, Swedish, Scots Gaelic, Chinese, Japanese, Navajo, Slave, and Kalagan are discussed. Syntactic and morphological data from these languages are used to illuminate the details of the phrase structure of the verbal predicate. These data also aid in understanding how phrase structure is used to express certain facets of language, such as event structure, aspectual verb classes, productive and lexical causatives, derived objects, agents and causes, and coerced structures.
  table of contents: Inner Derived Objects -- Inner Aspect and Event -- Event Structure and Phrase Structure -- Interaction of Objects and Aspect -- L-Syntax and S-Syntax -- The Syntax of Achievements -- Bounds and Coercion -- Conclusion.
  note: by Lisa deMena Travis.
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Austronesian languages
  subject:
    topic: Comparative linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Grammar
  subject:
    topic: Syntax
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics, general
  subject:
    topic: Theoretical Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Syntax
  subject:
    topic: Austronesian Languages
  subject:
    topic: Grammar
  subject:
    topic: Comparative Linguistics
  classification: P1-1091
  classification: 410
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 80
  identifier: 9789048185504
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8550-4
  record info:
    record creation date: 100907
    record change date: 20151204180525.0
    record identifier: 978-90-481-8550-4