Complex predicates
Subtitle: verbal complexes, resultative constructions, and particle verbs in German
By: Stefan Müller.
Series: Studies in constraint-based lexicalism
Publisher: CSLI Publications
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
Subjects: German language -- Verb phrase.; German language -- Syntax.; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase.
Description: Examines a number of linguistic phenomena - including auxiliary and verb combinations, causative constructions, depictive secondary predicates, and particle and verb combinations - and uses scrambling and fronting data to determine that all except the depictive secondary predicates should be treated as complex predicates.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-434) and indexes.