Elementary Predicates and Related Categories (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 285)

By Ludovico Franco

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027214999
• ISBN13: 9789027214997
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.