A nanosyntactic approach to Dutch deadjectival verbs
Abstract There are three ways of deriving verbs in Dutch: through zero marking, through suffixation, and through prefixation. We focus on prefixed deadjectival verbs, contrasting two views. According to the first view, prefixed verbs are left-headed: the prefix is responsible for the change in category, i.e. [ V ver [ A breed]]. The second view holds that prefixed verbs are right-headed, and involve a zero verbalizing suffix, i.e. [ V ver [ V [ A breed] ∅]]. We argue in this paper for a mixed, nanosyntactic, approach. We adopt Ramchand’s (2008) decomposition of the verb and argue that the pref... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
| Reihe/Periodikum: | Linguistics in the Netherlands ; Linguistics in the Netherlands 2022 ; volume 39, page 240-262 ; ISSN 0929-7332 1569-9919 |
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
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| Schlagwörter: | Linguistics and Language / Language and Linguistics |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26654130 |
| Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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| Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/avt.00072.wyn |
Abstract There are three ways of deriving verbs in Dutch: through zero marking, through suffixation, and through prefixation. We focus on prefixed deadjectival verbs, contrasting two views. According to the first view, prefixed verbs are left-headed: the prefix is responsible for the change in category, i.e. [ V ver [ A breed]]. The second view holds that prefixed verbs are right-headed, and involve a zero verbalizing suffix, i.e. [ V ver [ V [ A breed] ∅]]. We argue in this paper for a mixed, nanosyntactic, approach. We adopt Ramchand’s (2008) decomposition of the verb and argue that the prefix spells out part of the verbal structure and the verbal root spells out another part.