Original scientific paper
The Role and Reference Grammar Analysis of Three-Place Predicates
Robert D. Van Valin
Abstract
This paper presents the Role and Reference Grammar [RRG] (Van Valin 2005) analysis of
three–place predicates. RRG takes a primarily lexical approach to the analysis of
three–place predicates and the coding alternations they enter into. There is an interesting
range of typological variation with respect to how languages realize three–place predicates
morphosyntactically, and this will be a major focus of this discussion. RRG is a monostratal
theory, and therefore analyses involving underlying syntactic representations and
movement rules are excluded in principle. Hence some of the phenomena associated with
these predicates present an interesting challenge for monostratal theories like RRG. The
languages to be discussed include English, Croatian, German, Indonesian, Kinyarwanda,
Yaqui, Dyirbal, Saliba and Kayardild.
Keywords
Role and Reference Grammar; three–place predicates; semantic representation; universal grammar
Hrčak ID:
19458
URI
Publication date:
5.2.2007.
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