Determinants of event type in Persian complex predicates

Raffaella Folli; Heidi Harley; Simin Karimi

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2004.06.002

Determinants of event type in Persian complex predicates

Raffaella Folli, Heidi Harley, Simin Karimi

Linguistics

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Abstract

In this paper we analyse the interdependence of Persian nonverbal (NV) elements and the light verb (LV) in determining the syntactic properties, the event structure, and the alternation possibilities of the entire complex predicate (CP). We argue that these properties provide strong evidence for a constructionalist approach to such phenomena, like that of Hale and Keyser (1993, 2002), and that the combination of compositionality and syntactic independence effects observed in these constructions, are difficult, if not impossible, to deal with in a projectionist approach.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1365-1401
Number of pages	37
Journal	Lingua
Volume	115
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2004.06.002
State	Published - Oct 2005

Keywords

Complex predicates
Light verbs
Persian
Selectional properties

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Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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