Verbs Incorporating Themes, Pseudo-Agent Verbs and Verbs Displaying an Ambiguous Behaviour

Adina Camelia Bleotu

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Pages:: 157–175

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004409514_006

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In Chapter 5, I try to account for verbs incorporating Themes, verbs seemingly incorporating Agents, and weather verbs both in English and Romanian. The basic insights of this endeavor are that:(i) Theme incorporation may depend on lexico-pragmatic factors, such as how predictable the canonical action is (??to apple may involve picking, eating, cutting, while to dance clearly involves doing a dance), (ii) “Agent” incorporation should be treated as Manner incorporation, given that to spy does not entail being a spy, but behaving like one, (ii) weather verbs are ambiguous crosslinguistically (in that their subject seems to act as an Agent sometimes, but as a Patient/ Theme in other cases). I also provide representations in the previously discussed major accounts of denominals, opting for a spanning analysis.

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Towards a Theory of Denominals

A Look at Incorporation, Phrasal Spell-Out and Spanning

Series: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory, Volume: 14

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004409514

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 23 Aug 2019

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- Languages and Linguistics
  - Morphology & Syntax
  - Indo-European Languages

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Chapter 5 Verbs Incorporating Themes, Pseudo-Agent Verbs and Verbs Displaying an Ambiguous Behaviour

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A Look at Incorporation, Phrasal Spell-Out and Spanning

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