Description
Book SynopsisThe volume deals with valency phenomena in verbs and complex deverbal lexical structures (nominalizations, adjectivizations and compounds) in a variety of languages (English, Polish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Greek, Hebrew, Bantu languages and the West African language Ga). The introduction offers an overview of valency related issues and up-to-date linguistic literature. The eleven contributions address specific problems, such as the interaction of valency with argument- and event-structure, properties of light verbs, impersonal constructions, antipassives, analogies between passivization and nominalization/adjectivization, effects of verbal prefixation, and synthetic compounds. The proposed analyses are couched in lexically and syntactically driven approaches.
Table of ContentsValency in verbs and verb-related structures – Passives, unaccusativity, and nominalisation – A DM perspective on the structure of passive potential adjectives in Polish – The omission of internal arguments in verbal and nominal structures – When a verb has more than one valence frame – The interaction between event structure and argument structure in light of some Hungarian and English facts – Synthetic compound adjectives in Polish. A case of the morphology-syntax interface – The morpho-syntax of reflexive impersonals in Polish – The unbearable lightness of HAVE(ing) – Antipassive-like features in selected English and Polish object drop constructions – The internal structure of the synthetic compounds based on the passive participle in English – On the properties of arguments in Polish na-prefixed constructions
