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Title The syntax of pseudo-coordination in English and Afrikaans
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1887/3745
Date 2005
Author(s) Vos, Mark Andrew de
Abstract Promotores: J.E.C.V. Rooryck, S.Barbiers - Summary in Dutch - The dissertation provides a systematic description of English and Afrikaans verbal pseudo-coordination and a formal analysis couched in the Minimalist program. It has implications for the way narrow syntax conjoins categories and features and argues for a role for syntactic operations below the level of the head. The dissertation also has consequences for the nature of headmovement, excorporation and its triggers. Verbal pseudo-coordination typically involves an aspectual verb coordinated with a lexical verb. This dissertation argues that verbal pseudo-coordination is not a unitary phenomenon and can involve coordination of verbal heads rather than phrasal categories. The analysis allows a treatment of pseudocoordination as ordinary coordination rather than as subordination. The typology of verbal pseudo-coordination is extended with a discussion of reduplicative coordination and Afrikaaans pseudo-coordination with verbs of posture. It is shown that coordination can target features at or below the level of the head and that this allows strong conceptions of the Coordinate Structure Constraint and the Law of Coordination of Likes to be maintained.
Subject(s) Afrikaans; Pseudo-coordination; Direct linking verb; Indirect linking verb; Verb cluster; Coordination; Head movement; Feature movement; Subatomic; Linguistics; Syntax; Minimalism
Language en
Publisher Igitur/LOT: Netherlands graduate school of linguistics; Leiden University Center for Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Leiden University
Relation LOT dissertation series;114
Type of publication Doctoral thesis; Dissertatie
Format 4685 bytes; 129939 bytes; 23157 bytes; 1265526 bytes; application/pdf; application/pdf; application/pdf; application/pdf
Identifier Vos, M.A. de, 2005. Doctoral thesis, Leiden University; 9076864810
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
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