[图书][B] Explaining the resultative parameter

DA Milway - 2019 - search.proquest.com
This thesis proposes an explanatory account for the fact that some, but not all languages
exhibit adjectival resultatives. It does so by synthesizing a number of earlier proposals. From …

[PDF][PDF] Path Coercion and Compositionality: A Comparative Study of Motion Expressions in English and Japanese

S Namiki - 2018 - tsukuba.repo.nii.ac.jp
1.1. Aim Languages vary widely with respect to how they encode directed motion events.
Variation in the lexical encoding of spatial goals has particularly attracted the attention of …

Do so replacement and the argument/adjunct distinction in Merge-based syntax

Y Shuhama - Linguistics Beyond and Within (LingBaW), 2022 - ceeol.com
This study provides a novel look at do so replacement within the framework of the Bare
Phrase Structure theory. Unlike the previous view of do so as a monolithic VP anaphor, I …

[PDF][PDF] Path Coercions in English Motion Expressions

S Namiki - Tsukuba English Studies, 2015 - tsukuba.repo.nii.ac.jp
The meaning of a complex expression is sometimes not completely traceable to the
meanings of its parts. This is thought of as a violation of the compositionality principle, in …