On the Syntactic Composition of Manner and Motion

by Maria Luisa Zubizarreta

Book Overview

This crosslinguistic study of the structure of motion predicates argues for the universal syntactic nature of the composition of manner and motion within the verbal constituent. In serial verb languages, manner and motion are overtly represented as two distinct morphosyntactic units, sequentially ordered. Zubizarreta and Oh argue that the same analysis into two units holds for nonserial verb languages, albeit at a more abstract level. They argue...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026274029X
• ISBN13: 9780262740296
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher