Scalar Verb Classes
Scalarity, Thematic Roles, and Arguments in the Estonian Aspectual Lexicon
Author(s)
Tamm, Anne
Language
EnglishAbstract
This monograph discusses scalar verb classes. It tests theories of linguistic form and meaning, arguments and thematic roles, using Estonian data. The analyses help to understand the aspectual structure of Estonian. In Estonian, transitive verbs fall into aspectual classes based on the type of case-marking of objects and adjuncts. The book relates the morphosyntactic frames of verbs to properties typically associated with adjectives and nouns: scalarity and boundedness. Verbs are divided according to how their aspect is composed. Some verbs lexicalize a scale, which can be bounded either lexically or compositionally. Aspectual composition involves the unification of features. Compositionally derived structures differ according to which of the aspectually relevant dimensions are bounded.
ISBN
9788866550556, 9788892736269Publisher
Firenze University PressPublisher website
www.fupress.com/Publication date and place
Firenze, 2012Series
Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna,Classification
Linguistics
Literature: history and criticism