Syntax of Dutch

Adpositions and Adpositional Phrases

Autor: Broekhuis, Hans
Editor: Amsterdam University Press
Colección: Comprehensive Grammar Resources
ISBN: 9789089646019
eISBN Pdf: 9789048522255
Lugar de publicación: Amsterdam , Holanda
Año de publicación digital: 2013
Mes: Noviembre
Páginas: 416
DDC: 435
Idioma: Ingles

Descripción

Part of the larger Syntax of Dutch series, this volume focuses on the internal makeup and distribution of adpositional phrases in Dutch. It covers such topics as complementation and modification of adpositional phrases, as well as their predicative, attributive, and adverbial uses.

Contents
Abbreviations and symbols
Preface and acknowledgments
- 1. General introduction
- 2. Main objective
- 3. Intended readership
- 4. Object of description
- 5. Organization of the material
- 6. History of the project and future prospects
- 7. Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Adpositions: characteristics and classfication
- 1.1. Characterization of the category adposition
- 1.2. A formal classification of adpositional phrases
- 1.3. A semantic classification of adpositional phrases
- 1.4. Borderline cases
- 1.5. Bibliographical notes
Chapter 2. Projection of adpositional phrases: Complementation
- 2.1. Nominal complements
- 2.2. Adpositional complements
- 2.3. Adjectival complements
- 2.4. Clausal complements
- 2.5. Absolute PPs
- 2.6. Bibliographical notes
Chapter 3. Projection of adpositional phrases: Modification
- 3.1. Spatial adpositional phrases
- 3.2. Temporal adpositional phrases
- 3.3. Non-spatial/temporal adpositional phrases
- 3.4. Comparative/superlative formation
- 3.5. Some ambiguous constructions
- 3.6. Bibliographical note
Chapter 4. Syntactic uses of the adpositional phrase
- 4.1. Adpositional phrases used as arguments
- 4.2. Predicative use of adpositional phrases
- 4.3. Attributive use of adpositional phrases
- 4.4. Adverbial use of adpositional phrases
- 4.5. Bibliographical notes
Chapter 5. R-pronominalization and R-words
- 5.1. [-Human] restriction on the formation of pronominal PPs
- 5.2. Lexical restrictions on the formation of pronominal PPs
- 5.3. Syntactic restrictions on R-extraction
- 5.4. Idiomatic pronominal PPs
- 5.5. Appendix: The syntax of R-words
- 5.6. Bibliographical notes
Glossary
Subject Index
References
Comprehensive Grammar Resources - the series