1st Edition

Origins of Predicates Evidence from Plains Cree

By Tomio Hirose Copyright 2003
    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book offers a new perspective on natural language predicates by analyzing data from the Plains Cree language. Contrary to traditional understanding, Cree verbal complexes are syntactic constructs composed of morphemes as syntactic objects that are subject to structurally defined constraints, such as c-command. Tomio Hirose illustrates this in his study of vP syntax, event semantics, morphology-syntax mappings, unaccusativity, noun incorporation, and valency-reducing phenomena.

    Abbreviations and Symbols Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Zero Eventuality Hypothesis Chapter 3 ?P Structures and the Syntax of Affixation Chapter 4 ?P Structures and Noun Incorporation Phenomena Chapter 5 ?P Structures and Operator-Binding Phenomena Chapter 6 Conclusion Chapter 7 Appendix: Deriving Dynamic Unaccusatives via Reflexivization

    Biography

    Tomio Hirose received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 2001. Having spent a year at the University of Leipzig as a research associate, he is currently affiliated with Matsue National College of Technology, Japan.