Lexical template morphology
Subtitle: change of state and the verbal prefixes in German
By: B. Roger Maylor.
Series: Studies in language companion series,; v. 58
Publisher: J. Benjamins
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: German language -- Suffixes and prefixes.; German language -- Verb.; German language -- Morphology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-257) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: 1. Why study the prefixes?; title: 2. The so-called inseparable and separable prefixes in German; title: 3. The framework 6; title: 4. Organization 6; title: CHAPTER 1; title: Understanding the prefixes: The view so far 9; title: 1. The traditional view 9; title: 2. The prefixes in Generative Linguistics 15; title: 3. Beyond traditional taxonomy 18; title: 4. Theoretical treatments in Generative Linguistics 20; title: 5. Conclusions 37; title: CHAPTER 2; title: The be-verbs in the Figure/Ground schema 39; title: 1. Prepositions and be-verbs 40; title: 2. The APPLICATIVE morpheme 41; title: 3. Baker's Incorporation Hypothesis 42; title: 4. The Head Adjacency Principle 45; title: 5. Syntax or morphology? 47; title: 6. Figure and Ground 49; title: 7. State and Change of State 52; title: 8. Arguments and verbs 54; title: 9. Argument templates 58; title: lo. Apparent exceptions 68; title: n. Affectedness or effectedness? 73; title: 12. The verbal complex smell 75; title: 13. The be-prefix in English 77; title: 14. Differences between the APPLICATIVE morphemes; title: and the German prefixes 78; title: 15. Summary and conclusions 80; title: CHAPTER 3; title: The Figure/Ground schema and the Indo-European case system; title: 1. The ent-templates 85; title: 2. The five abstract features in the Figure/Ground schema; title: 3. The Proto-Indo-European case system 91; title: 4. Russian oblique case complements 104; title: 5. Summary 107; title: 6. The [+L] ent-verbs 107; title: 7. Productivity and the [L] ent-verbs no; title: 8. Summary 113; title: 9. Adjectives in the Figure/Ground schema 113; title: CHAPTER 4; title: The non-locational prefixes and the hidden Ground 121; title: 1. Introduction 121; title: 2. 0-roles or verbal decomposition? 122; title: 3. The non-locational prefixes in the Figure/Ground schema; title: 4. The [OL] templates 128; title: 5. Secondary features 138; title: 6. The ge- prefix 146; title: 7. The Secondary Prefixes 161; title: 8. Summary 170; title: CHAPTER 5; title: Deadjectival prefixed verbs 173; title: 1. The P in change of state predicates 173; title: 2. Realization of change of state P as a prefix 177; title: 3. Deadjectival ver- and er-verbs 181; title: 4. The structure of deadjectival and denominal prefixed verbs; title: 5. Conversion versus incorporation 195; title: 6. The relationship between [L] and [OL] 200; title: 7. Conclusion 208; title: CHAPTER 6; title: The Dative and the Locative Alternations 211; title: 1. Introduction 211; title: 2. The Dative Alternation and Pesetsky's 'Zero G' 211; title: 3. The Locative Alternation 213; title: 4. Conclusion 220; title: CHAPTER 7; title: The loss of the prefixes in English 223; title: 1. Introduction 223; title: 2. Transition and ambiguity in OE 223; title: 3. The rise of particle verbs in English 226; title: 4. FromOEtoNE 227; title: 5. Parametric change 228; title: 6. Case and case morphology 235; title: 7. Monosyllabic heads in English 242; title: 8. The status of [+L, -+] 243; title: 9. TheX- level 243; title: lo. Conclusion 244.