International journal of language studies, 93, 3 proficiency threshold beyond which l2 transfer could happen to the tla. The typology of comparative constructions revisited. Tracking shifts in the literal versus the intensifying. Everything on this cline is to be stated in a common format, from the. Refinitization of the manner converb in beja cushitic halshs. Aspectual constructions, april 78, 2017, the university of colorado at boulder, boulder, co. On the typology of basic locative constructions in sinitic languages ng, kathleen teresa the university of hong kong, hong kong abstract this paper aims to study the basic locative constructions blcs in cantonese and shanghainese. English resultative construction in a framework of cognitive grammar. Resultative verb compounds in chinese are analyzed in terms of talmys conceptual approach and are shown to present a problem for.
The university of texas at arlington student conference in linguistics and tesol 2015, november 6, 2015, the university of texas at arlington, arlington, tx. Croft and others published revising talmys typological classification of complex event constructions find, read and cite all. Toward a typology of causative constructions song, j. James huang 12012006 chinese linguistics workshop, university of chicago 2 part i. This paper aims to investigate the typology of resultative constructions henceforth rc in korean, to provide their relevant constraints and finally to.
Towards a typology of the resultative perfect based on old church slavonic materials article pdf available in slavisticna revija 664. Pdf the syntax and semantics of resultative constructions in. Pdf revising talmys typological classification of complex event. Strongresultative is present in germanic but missing in japanese and romance languages 1. First, the adjective in these constructions is an adjunct, as it can. The monograph focuses on imperative sentences and verb forms used in them. Jan 01, 2003 toward a typology of cleftbased focus constructions in this section i will investigate some of the properties of fcs mentioned in section 4.
The macrohistory of chinese syntax and the theory of change c. There is a special synthetic form which includes a stative support verb. Boas 3 2005 summer research assignment two months summer salary, for conducting research on. Our findings suggest that usagebased theories of language development hold. Tai national chung cheng university cognitive linguistics is viewed as a modern approach to linguistic relativity and cognitive relativism.
Resultative and depictive constructions in english changsulee. In a monoclausal comparative construction, the parameter which is modified by the index of comparison may be copula complement, head of an. He wiped the table clean, with special reference to old english and middle english. On the typology of basic locative constructions in sinitic languages. Treating event structures as complex grammatical patterns provides an insightful way of characterising crosslinguistically recurrent, yet variant, construction types, such as resultative, and identifies a typological research. Many ideas which are at best only hinted at in earlier literature such as the precise relation among resultative, perfect, and stative, or correlations between resultative and passive voice are here for the first time stated precisely and given a firm foundation by means of detailed exemplification from a wide range of languages. Exploring the crosslinguistic relationship between. Building typology refers to the study and documentation of a set of buildings which have similarities in their type of function or form.
Chapter 2 situates resultative constructions within a typology of causatives and points out crosslinguistic variation in. Resultative constructions, syntax, albanian, english. Introducing language typology language typology identifies similarities and differences among languages of the world. While possessive resultatives with a past passive participle as in polish kolacje mamy juz przygotowana lit. The analysis focuses on the problem of resumptive pronouns and relies on a proposal by demirdache 1991, 1997. In addition, it has been pointed out quite some time ago that the transfer process is different in production and in comprehension where the latter may involve more positive effects e. One of the findings of my dissertation and its revised version a constructional account to resultatives, csli publications, 2003 was that verbs often exhibit quite different. Chinese descriptive and resultative v constructions a. The resultative in icelandic shows a sensitivity to the distinction between ap and ppparticle predicates whose significance has been underestimated. Project muse the english resultative as a family of. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page.
View building typology research papers on academia. A usagebased analysis of l2 production of english resultative. Instead of using texts or controlled laboratory data, we utilized a corpus of taiwan. Pdf a cognitive study of resultative constructions in english. Building typology a living campus a living campus is designed to provide all of its own operating needs and not burden other systems beyond its borders treat all wastewater on site people and planet friendly transportation treat water as a valuable resource restore native habitat treat buildings as species. The english resultative as a family of constructions adele e.
Svc, resultative, change of state, argument structure, korean, hpsg it is generally assumed that serial verb constructions svcs share at least one argument, and has an. My interest in contrastive studies in construction grammar was initially sparked in 1999, when i wrote my dissertation on resultative constructions in english and german. The first is a functional typology that categorizes buildings by the similarity of their use into groups such as hospitals, schools, and shopping centers. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. The interface of syntax and semantics liang tao ohio university this study aims at providing a unified account of the serial verb construction as a complex predicate in mandarin chinese. Choose three 3 major examples of the project type hospitality typology they all must be restaurants.
This paper aims to study the basic locative constructions blcs in cantonese and shanghainese by using a standardized picture elicitation method. The authors of this article isare permitted to use this pdf file to generate printed copies to be. We explore various resultative constructions in english and dutch, and give a. Introduction parameters and typology looking ahead. Directional complements in taiwan mandarin natural speech shuchuan tseng academia sinica this paper is concerned with a speci.
This subordinate clause is marked by some morphemes or particles and often functions as complement, adverbial clause or relative clause. Introduction the following illustrates two types of secondary predication, the resultative and the depictive construction. Resultative constructions are set syntactic patterns used to express. English resultative expressions have been a major focus of research on the syntaxsemantics interface. This interaction generates a system of oppositions based on two types of. The form in resultatives is a verbal noun, infinitive or converb, not a participle vii. The english resultative as a family of constructions. Typology is pleased to participate in the inaugural edition of the toronto art book fair with a popup exhibition in the project space, a vendor table in the third floor hallway, and an artistled book arts workshop on the front lawn, hosted in partnership with gallery 44 and generously supported by japanese paper place. A typology report provide an historical overview of the typology, that is, its origins and its development over time right up to the present. Resultative and depictive constructions in english changsulee departmentofenglish language education i. Manner converb resultative adverbial clause perfect paradigm.
On the typology of basic locative constructions in sinitic. A form expressing states is not derived morphologically from a verb iv. Pdf towards a typology of the resultative perfect based. We argue in this article that a family of related constructions is required to account for their distribution. Pdf the english resultative as a family of constructions. The form used in resultative function is not nonfinite. The macrohistory of chinese syntax and the theory of change. Dutch has various types of these intensifying degree resultatives.
As lai is a sov language, the subordinate clauses normally come before the main clauses. Revisiting adjectival resultatives in old romance victor. A threeway distinction of english resultatives and its. Sep 17, 2008 a typology of comparative constructions is presented, with major attention to the prototypical scheme in which two participants are compared in terms of the degree of some gradable property associated with them as in john is more handsome than felix. Change of state verb and syntax of serial verb constructions in korean. This article presents the lithuanian possessive resultative construction with the verb tureti have and discusses its place in a typology of forms of resultative constructions. Following li 2008, 2009, i define the resultative construction as a complex predicate composed of two free. Directional complements in taiwan mandarin natural speech. We provide evidence that the examples in 1 are not true adjectival resultative constructions of the type found in satelliteframed languages or some verbframed languages japanese. It offers the broadest coverage of any introductory book, including sections on.
Pdf resultative constructions in albanian and english. The typology of comparative constructions revisited category. In linguistics, a resultative abbreviated res is a form that expresses that something or. This typology will use a battery of criteria available in existing surveys, to be precisely defined and supplemented such as, for example.
Pdf english resultative expressions have been a major focus of research on. Mandarin resultative verb compounds linguistics yale university. The present paper argues that a family of related constructions is required to account for their distribution. Introduction this paper concerns the types of the resultative construction in english and the typologization of languages that have this construction. Degree resultatives as secondorder constructions jack hoeksema. The main objective of this work is, by proceeding from the universal definition of the imperative concept, to describe the imperative sentences from the angle of language typology. Change of state verb and syntax of serial verb constructions.
In qualitative social research, there are only a few approaches in which the process of typology construction is explicated and systematised in detail. Pathpp structure and parametrized path head movement keywords. Icelandic and the typology of resultatives the resultative construction 1 has been a source of enduring interest in formal cf. Resultative constructions refer to clauses in which, in addition to the main verb v, there is an additional, secondary predicate known as the result xp, predicating some state that comes about for some participant in the event as a result of the action described by the clause. Korean resultative constructions connecting repositories. In this research thesis, a typology of the subordinate constructions will be discussed.
We use cookies to make interactions with our website easy and meaningful, to better understand the use of our services, and to tailor advertising. Empirically grounded construction of types and typologies in. Deliverable 4 the typology of buildings which will still be. Adopting the assumption that complex predicates may be broadly viewed as syntactic complexity to present. The latter phenomenon the organization of complementation systems is, in fact, a noticeably understudied area in the otherwise welldeveloped typology of complementation. Toward a typology of focus and focus constructions 1. Pdf resultative constructions and some remarks on translating. The lithuanian haveresultative a typological curiosum. This chapter, after a brief presentation section 2 of the typological characteristics relevant.