Verbal Projections

Hero Janßen

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9783484304208
• eBook ISBN: 9783110929928
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This collection of articles examines lexical and grammatical aspects of verbal elements and phrases in the context of recent generative research. General questions concern definitions of grammatical categories, classifications of auxiliaries and particles as functional categories, and problems of economy. Lexical matters range from affixation and category change (participles, gerunds) to semantic representations of specific verb classes (possessive, phrasal and intransitive verbs). The syntactic analyses focus on positional arrangements of aspectual and verbal units (V2, Verb Raising). The data are mainly drawn from English; perspectives on other Germanic languages are included.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• I. Verbal Categories in Syntax and Lexicon
• Don’t Call it “X” or: Why X does not Represent Grammatical Categories
• Functional Affixes and Downward Percolation
• The -ing-Affixes: towards a Classification
• One Be: One Syntactic Function
• II. Verb Classes, Lexical Representations, and Syntactic Reflexes
• Intransitive Verbs as Case Assigners
• English Particle Verbs: Particles as Functional Categories
• The Lexical-Conceptual Structure of English Verbs of Possession
• Subject-there as an Adverb
• III. Verb Positions and Movement
• Aspectual Complement Clauses and the (Un-)Availability of Verb Raising
• Verb Second, Alternatives, and Economy
• Types of VP-Preposing
• List of Contributors