Elementary Predicates and Related Categories
Author | : Ludovico Franco |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2024-07-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789027246622 |
ISBN-13 | : 9027246629 |
Rating | : 4/5 (629 Downloads) |
Download or read book Elementary Predicates and Related Categories written by Ludovico Franco and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh perspective on how natural languages encode grammatical relations, by delving into the interplay between oblique cases, adpositions, serial verbs, and applicatives. This book reveals, through a series of case studies, the pervasive role of the 'inclusion' relator across diverse linguistic contexts. Departing from traditional views that obliques lack interpretive content, this work presents a unified conceptual framework of relations in grammar. Drawing on minimalist principles, the book posits a preeminence of the lexicon in syntactic projection, shedding light on the underlying ontology of language. By exploring cross-categorial variation and syncretism, it outlines an inventory of primitives shaping morpho-syntactic derivations.