1st Edition
Syntax of Dutch Adpositions and Adpositional Phrases
414 Pages
by
Routledge
414 Pages
by
Routledge
The Syntax of Dutch will be published in at least seven volumes in the period 2012-2016 and aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and provides support to all researchers interested in matters relating to the syntax of Dutch, including advanced students of language... Read more
Abbreviations and symbols, Preface and acknowledgments, 1. General introduction 2. Main objective 3. Intended readership 4. Object of description 5. Organization of the material 6. History of the project and future prospects 7. Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter 1 Adpositions: characteristics and classification 1.1. Characterization of the category adposition 1.2. A formal classification of adpositional phrases 1.3. A semantic classification of adpositional phrases 1.4. Borderline cases 1.5. Bibliographical notes Chapter 2 Projection of adpositional phrases: Complementation 2.1. Nominal complements 2.2. Adpositional complements 2.3. Adjectival complements 2.4. Clausal complements 2.5. Absolute PPs, 2.6. Bibliographical notes, Chapter 3 Projection of adpositional phrases: Modification 3.1. Spatial adpositional phrases 3.2. Temporal adpositional phrases 3.3. Non-spatial/temporal adpositional phrases 3.4. Comparative/superlative formation 3.5. Some ambiguous constructions 3.6. Bibliographical note
Biography
Hans Broekhuis is a researcher on the Variationist Linguistics Language Portal at the Meertens Instituut, part of the Dutch academy of sciences (KNAW). He has published with colleagues many volumes in the Syntax of Dutch series, and has co-edited Broekhuis, H. & R. Vogel. (2013) Linguistic Derivations and Filtering. Minimalism and Optimality Theory (Equinox, 2013), and a monograph entitled Derivations and evaluations. Object shift in the Germanic languages (Mouton de Gruyter, 2008)
