Complex Predicates
Verbal Complexes, Resultative Constructions, and Particle Verbs in German
Distributed for Center for the Study of Language and Information
482 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2002
Complex Predicates examines a number of linguistic phenomena—including auxiliary and verb combinations, causative constructions, predicatives, depictive secondary predicates, and particle and verb combinations—and uses scrambling and fronting data to determine that all except the depictive secondary predicates should be treated as complex predicates. Müller's analysis of inflection and derivation is compatible with syntactical analysis of particle verbs; as a byproduct, it also solves the particle verb bracketing paradox often discussed in the literature.
Contents
Introduction
1. Background: The German Sentence Structure
2. The Predicate Complex, Control, and Raising
3. Passive
4. Depictive Secondary Predicates
5. Resultative Secondary Predicates
6. Particle Verbs
7. A Comparison with Other Approaches to Complex Predicates
8. Summary
References
Expression Index
Reverse Expression Index
Name Index
Subject Index
1. Background: The German Sentence Structure
2. The Predicate Complex, Control, and Raising
3. Passive
4. Depictive Secondary Predicates
5. Resultative Secondary Predicates
6. Particle Verbs
7. A Comparison with Other Approaches to Complex Predicates
8. Summary
References
Expression Index
Reverse Expression Index
Name Index
Subject Index
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