Big Events, Small Clauses

The Grammar of Elaboration
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-028580-2
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 457 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 845 g

Reihe: Language, Context and Cognition

This book investigates specific syntactic means of event elaborationacross seven Indo-European languages (English, German, Norwegian,French, Russian, Latin and Ancient Greek): bare and comitative smallclauses (“absolutes”), participle constructions and related clause-like butnon-finite adjuncts that increase descriptive granularity with respect toconstitutive parts of the matrix event (elaboration in the narrowestsense), or describe eventualities that are co-located and connectedwith but not part of the matrix event. The book falls in twoparts. Part I addresses central theoretical issues: How is the co-eventiveinterpretation of such adjuncts achieved? What is the internal syntax ofparticipial and converb constructions? How do these constructionsfunction at the discourse level, as compared to various finite structuresthat are available for co-eventive elaboration? Part II takes an empiricalcross-linguistic perspective. It consists of five self-contained chapters thatare based on parallel corpora and study either the use of a specificconstruction across at least two of the seven object languages, or how aspecific construction is rendered in other languages.

Zielgruppe

Academics (Linguistics, German Studies, English Studies), Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haug, Dag

Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Über Autor(innen)

Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine
Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, and Dag Haug, University of Oslo, Norway.