Open AccessThere-constructions with transitive verbs
Author(s) -
Anne Belinda Bjerre,
Tavs Bjerre
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2008.3
Subject(s) - transitive relation , locative case , constraint (computer aided design) , linguistics , danish , object (grammar) , mathematics , set (abstract data type) , computer science , order (exchange) , modal verb , artificial intelligence , combinatorics , verb , programming language , philosophy , geometry , business , finance
In this paper we address the question of which transitive verbsallow there-insertion in Danish. We propose that two constraintshave to be met in order for verbs to appear in Danishthere-constructions. Firstly, as have been noted by others, an emptydirect object position must be available. This constraint is notsufficient for restricting the set of verbs in there-constructions.We further propose a locative constraint. The transitive verbs allowingthere-insertion will be shown to coincide with verbs that allow alocative analysis.