Open Accesssyntax of small clause predication
Author(s) -
Joan Rafel
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.26.2001.142
Subject(s) - syntax , computer science , syntactic structure , linguistics , natural language processing , non finite clause , dependent clause , relative clause , value (mathematics) , range (aeronautics) , artificial intelligence , philosophy , sentence , materials science , machine learning , composite material
In this paper I put forward and justify a syntactic configuration that I call Complex Small Clause-structure. I show that this single syntactic structure can explain both the semantic value and the syntactic behavior of a range of constructions that up to now have been explored separately and, hence, proposed divergent analyses among them.