A Reversible Constraint-Based Logic Grammar: Application to the Treatment of Secondary Predication and Small Clauses

1994 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Palmira Marrafa ◽  
Patrick Saint-Dizier
Keyword(s):  
Small Clauses ◽  
Secondary Predication

scholarly journals Small clauses in English and Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian / Male klauze u engleskom i bosanskom, hrvatskom i srpskom jeziku

2019 ◽  
pp. 181-208
Author(s):  
Izela Habul-Šabanović
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Generative Grammar ◽  
Small Clause ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Sentence Level ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Small Clauses ◽  
Secondary Predication ◽  
Finite Verb

Small Clauses in English represent one of the basic concepts of modern generative grammar and they are characterized as minimal units of non-verbal predication, where the predication relation between the subject and the predicate is established in the absence of a finite verb form. In traditional grammars, they are generally referred to as “secondary predication” constructions. As the concept of a “small clause” is not familiar in the context of traditional descriptive grammars of Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, the aim of this paper is to make a preliminary contrastive analysis of how these or similar constructions are realized in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian through translation equivalents and how they are treated in traditional grammars. Additionally, we have applied several tests typically used in English literature to prove the constituency of small clauses in order to establish whether or not these constructions could form a separate constituent at the sentence level in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian as well.

scholarly journals On predication, derivation and anti-locality

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 87-111
Author(s):  
Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Small Clause ◽  
Clause Structure ◽  
Small Clauses ◽  
Secondary Predication ◽  
Locality Hypothesis

This paper pursues the question what the implications of the Anti-Locality Hypothesis could be for the syntax of secondary predication. Focus of the discussion will be an investigation of what their internal structure of small clause complements must look like, how these small clause complements connect to their matrix environments, and what the relevance could be for the formulation of anti-locality presented here. Anti-locality is defined over a tripartite clause structure (split into three Prolific Domains) and a PF-condition on the computation (the Condition on Domain-Exclusivity). The investigation revolves around two leading questions: (i) does the syntax of small clauses involve more structure than simply [SC DP XP] and (ii) do small clauses constitute their own Prolific Domain (or maybe even more)? The results, affirmative answers to both questions, are also relevant for other types of secondary predication.  

Book Reviews

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 251-292
Author(s):  
Tor A. Åfarli ◽  
Jarosław Jakielaszek ◽  
Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka ◽  
Wiktor Pskit ◽  
Jolanta Szpyra-Kozłowska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
English Language ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
East And Southeast Asia ◽  
Adverbial Modification ◽  
Secondary Predication ◽  
Oxford University Press

Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Eva F. Schultze-Berndt (eds), Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification: The Typology of Depictives, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xxv + 448 pages Edward L. Keenan, Edward P. Stabler, Bare Grammar: Lectures on Linguistic Invariants. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2003. 192 pp. Siobhan Chapman, Thinking about Language. Theories of English. Houndsmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. X + 174 pages. pb (Series: Perspectives on the English Language) Judith Rodby, W. Ross Winterowd, The Uses of Grammar, Oxford: Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiv + 274 pp. Laura J. Downing, Alan T. Hall and Renate Raffelsiefen (eds), Paradigms in Phonological Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 349 pages. Max W. Wheeler, The Phonology of Catalan. (The Phonology of the World’s Languages). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. XI + 387 pp. Jan-Olof Svantesson, Anna Tsendina, Anastasia Karlson, and Vivan Franzén, The Phonology of Mongolian. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xix + 314. Cliff Goddard, The Languages of East and Southeast Asia. An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. pp. xvi + 315.

On the Status of Null BE in English Small Clauses.

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-223
Author(s):  
Youngoak Ryu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Status ◽  
Small Clauses

scholarly journals Empty verbs in Chinese predicatives and complex predicates

1999 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 147-163
Author(s):  
Niina Ning Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Verb Second ◽  
Complex Predicates ◽  
Internal Argument ◽  
Syntactic Properties ◽  
Secondary Predication

This paper investigates syntactic properties of verbless constructions in Chinese. Verbless constructions differ from constructions with overt verbs in three major respects. First, there is a VP-internal nominal raising in Chinese, which is optional if an overt verb shows up, and obligatory if there is no overt verb. Second, while an overt verb can select various kinds of argument, the internal argument of a verbless construction cannot be indefinite. Third, there are two types of object depictive secondary predication constructions, and only one of them allows for a null verb.  

scholarly journals Benita Riaubienė. Resultative secondary predication in European languages

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Rolandas Mikulskas
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Vilnius University ◽  
Secondary Predication

Doctoral dissertation (Humanities, Philology (04 H)), Vilnius: Vilnius University, 2015, p. 184.

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