Middle voice : a comparative study in the syntax-semantics interface of German

Middle voice : a comparative study in the syntax-semantics interface of German / Markus Steinbach.

This book offers a completely new analysis of the syntax and semantics of transitive reflexive sentences in German, which is embedded in the major phenomenon of the middle voice in Indo-European languages. It integrates the interpretation of non-argument reflexives into a modified version of recent...

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Main Author: Steinbach, Markus
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2002.
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 50.
Subjects:
German language > Voice.
German language > Verb.
German language > Syntax.
German language > Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Middle voice.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > German.
German language > Semantics
German language > Syntax
German language > Verb
German language > Voice
Grammar, Comparative and general > Middle voice
Grammatica.
Duits.
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Summary:This book offers a completely new analysis of the syntax and semantics of transitive reflexive sentences in German, which is embedded in the major phenomenon of the middle voice in Indo-European languages. It integrates the interpretation of non-argument reflexives into a modified version of recent theories of binding. The ambiguity of the reflexive pronoun is derived at the interface between syntax and semantics and does not rely on additional lexical or syntactic rules of argument suppression and argument promotion. This shift towards the semantic interpretation of syntactic arguments enable.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 337 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-325) and index.
ISBN:9789027297556
902729755X
9789027227713
9027227713
ISSN:0166-0829 ;
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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