Resultatives in Basque: A Diachronic Study

a study of baudrillards ideas in brian moores fiction

پیدایش مرحله ی جدیدی از نظام سرمایه داری بعد از جنگ جهانی دوم همزمان است با ظهور عصر اطلاعات و رسانه جمعی. در چنین جامعه ای سیر آزادانه ی نشانه ها در فضای بی اساس مجازی بر سرعت فرسایش واقعیت می افزاید. به اعتقاد بودریار، فقدان واقعیت به واسطه ی شبیه سازی آن و تولید حاد واقعیت (hyperreality) پنهان خواهد ماند. این پژوهش بر آن است که جامعه فرانوین توصیف شده در سه رمان بریان مور را با توجه به نظر...

Objects in Resultatives

English Resultatives Revisited

This paper focusses on the English adjectival resultative construction, as exempliied in examples (1)-(4). (1) John hammered the metal at. (2) The river froze solid. (3) The dog barked itself hoarse. (4) The dog barked the neighbours awake. Result predication occurs with both transitive and intransitive verbs. In the transitive case, the result state is predicated of the object (1). For intrans...

Word Order in Resultatives

This paper advances a general account of word order in resultatives. My conclusions derive from consideration of several languages, both VO and OV. Featured from the first group are English, Igbo, Edo, Ambae, Paamese, Mandarin, Shanghainese, Thai, and Vietnamese; included in the second are German, Ijọ, Japanese, Malayalam, Kannada, Mizo, and Yi. Resultatives are single clause constructions comp...

Bare Resultatives

This paper provides a complex-predicate analysis of resultatives in terms of bare phrase structure. Our main claim is that the predicate types and thematic mapping rules required for simplex verbs can be used to explain core properties of resultative constructions if a strict versions of Chomsky’s inclusiveness condition is adopted. The analysis supports a view of subjects as external arguments...