The Syntax and Semantics of Pseudo-Incorporation [yntax and semantics, 40.]

edited by Olga Borik, Berit Gehrke

ISBN 10: 9004290346 / ISBN 13: 9789004290341

Published by Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015

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VI-334 pages ; 24 cm. Contents: An introduction to the syntax and semantics of pseudo-incorporation / Olga Borik and Berit Gehrke -- Part I: General questions: delimiting the phenomenon; pseudo-incorporation and bare nominals -- Incorporation: morpho-syntactic vs. semantic considerations / Veneeta Dayal -- Weak reference and property denotation. Two types of pseudo-incorporated bare nominals / Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and Ion Giurgea -- Constructions with and without articles / Henriėtte de Swart -- Part 2: Case studies: the role of case and the discourse properties of pseudo-incorporated nominals -- The semantics of (Pseudo) incorporation and case / Michael Barrie and Audrey Li -- Discourse properties of bare noun objects / Fereshteh Modarresi -- Part 3: Possible empirical extensions -- NP-Incorporation in German / Werner Frey -- Pseudo-incorporation in Russian? Aspectual competition and bare singular interpretation / Olay Mueller-Reichau -- Pseudoincorporation analysis of unmarked direct objects in Mari / Natalia Serdobolskaya -- Index. "This volume brings together recent research on the semantics and syntax of pseudo-incorporation (PI), which is a construction of crucial significance for linguistic explorations as it brings together several fundamental areas of linguistic research, such as morphology, argument structure, modification, discourse and information structure. The main purpose of the book is to further improve our understanding of the phenomenon, expand the domain of inquiry by bringing into focus new empirical data from a wide array of languages, offer new formal analyses of PI, and strengthen the links with other related phenomena, such as bare nominals. Focusing on various properties of PI the articles in this volume set an excellent ground for further expansion of research in PI and related topics.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Syntax and Semantics of Pseudo-Incorporation [yntax and semantics, 40.]
• Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004290346
• ISBN 13: 9789004290341
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Linguistics

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Synopsis

This volume brings together recent research on the semantics and syntax of pseudo-incorporation (PI), which is a construction of crucial significance for linguistic explorations as it brings together several fundamental areas of linguistic research, such as morphology, argument structure, modification, discourse and information structure. The main purpose of the book is to further improve our understanding of the phenomenon, expand the domain of inquiry by bringing into focus new empirical data from a wide array of languages, offer new formal analyses of PI, and strengthen the links with other related phenomena, such as bare nominals. Focusing on various properties of PI the articles in this volume set an excellent ground for further expansion of research in PI and related topics.

Contributors are Michael Barrie, Olga Borik, Veneeta Dayal, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, Werner Frey, Berit Gehrke, Ion Giurgea, Audrey Li, Fereshteh Modarresi, Olav Mueller-Reichau, Natalia Serdobolskaya, and Henriėtte de Swart.

About the Author

Olga Borik, Ph.D. (2002), Utrecht University, is a researcher at the Universitat Autņnoma de Barcelona. She has published a monograph and several articles on aspect and tense, as well as articles on morphology-semantics interface, argument structure, syntax and semantics of participles and kind reference.

Berit Gehrke, Ph.D. (2008), Utrecht University, is a CNRS researcher at the University Paris Diderot. She has published on the semantics and syntax of events, argument and event structure, prepositions and verbal prefixes, adverbial and adjectival modification.

Contributors are Michael Barrie, Olga Borik, Veneeta Dayal, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, Werner Frey, Berit Gehrke, Ion Giurgea, Audrey Li, Fereshteh Modarresi, Olav Mueller-Reichau, Natalia Serdobolskaya, and Henriėtte de Swart.