scholarly journals An Event Semantic Structure Analysis of Shona Causative Constructions

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Mugari
Keyword(s):  
Structure Analysis ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Causative Constructions ◽  
Event Semantic

scholarly journals An Event Structure Analysis of Object-oriented Adverbial Clauses

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Leihong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Structure Analysis ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Event Structure ◽  
Structure Theory ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Adverbial Clauses ◽  
Adverbial Clause ◽  
Pragmatic Motivation ◽  
Event Semantic

In Mandarin Chinese, there exists such adverbial clause as “Li Zhen cuicuide zhale yipan huashengmi” (Li Zhen fried a dish of peanuts crispy), in which the adverbial modifies the predicate verb but semantically orients to the object. This kind adverbial clause can be formulated as “NPs+APo+De+VP+NPo=NP+VP+O and O is characterized by the adverbial”. The object-oriented adverbial clause is a mismatched syntax-semantics phenomenon, with the mapping between form and meaning distorted. Many previous studies have proposed not fully identical analyses for the syntactic distribution, pragmatic motivation and constraints. However, few researches have made syntactic and semantic analyses from the perspective of event structure in the framework of formal linguistics, which leaves wide space for further study.Event structure theory is adopted in this paper to make analysis of object-oriented adverbial clauses in event semantics perspective. This paper aims to examine the syntactic structure from the perspective of event semantic structure and explore how event structure is represented in syntactic structure of object-oriented adverbial clause.

scholarly journals DESCRIPTIVE VERBAL-NOMINAL CONSTRUCTIONS WITH CAUSATIVE SEMANTICS IN MODERN RUSSIAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 83-88
Author(s):  
Evgenia N. Laguzova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Language ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Formal Expression ◽  
Causative Constructions ◽  
Main Components ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Modern Russian

The article discusses descriptive verbal-nominal constructions with causative verbal components. The relevance of the study is due to the attention of modern linguistics to the problem of analyticism in the Russian language grammar, the lack of study of the structural and semantic features of analytical constructions with causatives. The novelty of the work consists in identifying the features of the semantic structure of sentences with causative verbal components. A feature of causative DVNC is recognized as dismembered semantics. Two varieties of causative constructions formed by descriptive verbal-nominal constructions are distinguished – sentences with arbitrary and automatic causation. The description of statements draws attention to the main semantic components – causative and causable subjects, methods of their formal expression. Differences in the semantic structure of sentences with spontaneous and automatic causation are shown. The purposefulness of causative action in sentences with spontaneous causation and indirectness of influence in sentences with automatic causation are due to the semantic features of the main components of causative statements with DVNC – the causative and causable subject. Constructions with spontaneous causation form polysubject monopropositive, DVNC with automatic causation form polysubject polypropositive structures. The peculiarity of the semantic structure of additional statements of DVNC unpretentious forms – participal – with causative semantics was noted. In sentences with DVNC unpretentious forms, the incentive is mitigated. Additional statements with DVNC form polypropositive constructions. The development of verbal-nominal constructions with causatives is associated with a tendency to analyticism, characteristic of the modern Russian language grammar. The materials of the article will be used in lexicographic practice – when compiling a dictionary of descriptive verbal-nominal constructions, in teaching special courses on the problem of nomination.

scholarly journals Semantic peculiarities of the verbs in the syntactic constructions used to describe emotional states in Spanish

2016 ◽  
pp. 79-88
Author(s):  
Natalia A. Mijeeva
Keyword(s):  
Emotional State ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Causative Constructions

This article is dedicated to investigation of the syntactic constructions describing emotional state of a person in Spanish: constructions with verba sentiendi, constructions with change of the empathy, causative constructions. These constructions have a determinate semantic structure which includes a predicate name of emotion and a verb. Different classifications of the verbs used in the above mentioned syntactic constructions are expounded and their semantic peculiarities are analysed in the article.

The Semantic Structure of Causative Constructions

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 489-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan van Voorst
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Causative Constructions ◽  
Change Of State ◽  
The Subject

This paper shows that an adequate semantic analysis of causative transitive constructions with verbs like break, turn and roll has to take into account two phenomena: 1) semantic specification, and 2) change of state or accomplishment. These two phenomena are not at all specific to this type of transitive construction and, as a matter of fact, causation is nothing more than the co-occurrence of an unspecified subject and a change of state. The process leading up to this change of state is not controlled by the initiator of the event. Interestingly, absence of control occurs precisely when the subject is unspecified.

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