Complex Predicates: Verbal Complexes, Resultative Constructions, and Particle Verbs in German

by Stefan Müller

Complex Predicates examines a number of linguistic phenomena--including auxiliary and verb combinations, causative constructions, predicatives, depictive secondary predicates, and particle and verb combinations--and uses scrambling and fronting data to determine that all except the depictive secondary predicates should be treated as complex predicates. M ller's analysis of inflection and derivation is compatible with syntactical analysis of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575863863
• ISBN13: 9781575863863
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 482 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"