Le statut syntaxique des objets «nus» en persan

Samvelian, Pollet

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“…With respect to the structure of the Persian VP, some authors (e.g., Ghomeshi and Massam 1994, Vahedi-Langrudi 1996, Samvelian 2001) have assumed that bare nouns in a light-verb construction are not syntactically different from bare direct objects of transitive verbs; that is, the two sentences in (38) below would have the same underlying structure. The predicative root and the bare object would occupy the same position in the syntactic configuration and should therefore receive identical treatment.…”

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L-syntax and phono-symbolism: on the status of ideophones in complexpredicates

Franco

2017

Can. J. Linguist.

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In this article, the author demonstrates that verbal compound constructions involving an ideophone and a light verb represent a widespread syntactic device in the world's languages. The author provides evidence that phono-symbolic morphemes cannot be treated as ‘bare’ direct objects in such constructions. Ideophones appearing in the light verb-adjacent position form a semantic unit with the verbal predicate, despite the fact that in some languages they can be syntacticized as (bare) nouns and appear in argumental position. Specifically, ideophones in complex predicates are part of the verbal domain with which they ‘blend’ (yielding a single predicate) through the mechanism of conflation, along the lines of Hale and Keyser (1993, 2002), and building on Ramchand (2008).

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Section: The L-syntax Of Ideophonesmentioning

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L-syntax and phono-symbolism: on the status of ideophones in complexpredicates

Franco

2017

Can. J. Linguist.

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“…Although, Persian complex predicates are multiword expressions and thus display some lexical properties such as lexicalization, they display all properties of syntactic combinations, including some degree of semantic compositionality. Hence, as Samvelian (2001Samvelian ( , 2012 extensively argues, it is impossible to establish a clearcut distinction between (prep-)noun-verb complex predicates and "ordinary" objectverb combinations. In other words, the differentiation is better reflected by a continuum from highly lexicalized complex predicates to ordinary complement-verb combinations rather than a categorical distinction.…”

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Accessibility and word order: The case of ditransitive constructions in Persian

Faghiri

Samvelian

2014

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In a most recent corpus study on Persian, Faghiri & Samvelian (2014) found a significant effect of relative length in the ordering preferences between the direct and indirect objects in the preverbal domain corresponding to "long-before-short". They furthermore showed that the position of the direct object mainly depends on its degree of determination, and put into question the broadly accepted dual view based solely on differential object marking. In this paper, we provide experimental evidence in support of these corpus findings and further propose a unified account of ordering preferences between the two objects on the basis of conceptual accessibility.

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“…A convincing example comes from Samvelian (2001) (the sentences are slightly modified from the original). In (13a), we have a "bare" preverb mesvak 'brush' and the light verb zaedaen 'hit.'…”

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“…This question has triggered much debate in the literature concerning the relation of the nominal element in CPrs and the light verb. The result is a two-way split: according to some researchers, noun preverbs are just like (bare) direct objects (Samvelian 2001;2004). According to others, most notably Megerdoomian (2006), noun preverbs differ from objects and occupy a different position in the syntactic structure.…”

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“…The problem I mainly focus on is the syntactic status of noun preverbs. In general, noun preverbs exhibit properties typically ascribed to direct objects (Samvelian 2001;2004), while at the same time being distinct from real arguments of the verb (Megerdoomian 2006). I suggest that noun preverbs can occupy more than one position in the verbal phrase and show how this analysis captures their dual nature, as well as some other syntactic and semantic peculiarities.…”

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Noun Preverbs in Complex Predicates

Pantcheva

2008

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In this paper, I propose a syntax-based analysis of Persian complex predicates (a predicate consisting of a so called preverb and a light verb). I adopt the framework of the verbal First Phase Syntax developed by Ramchand (2008). I use complex predicates with the light verb zaedaen 'hit' to illustrate how this approach sheds light on some widely discussed issues in the literature. The problem I mainly focus on is the syntactic status of noun preverbs. In general, noun preverbs exhibit properties typically ascribed to direct objects (Samvelian 2001;2004), while at the same time being distinct from real arguments of the verb (Megerdoomian 2006). I suggest that noun preverbs can occupy more than one position in the verbal phrase and show how this analysis captures their dual nature, as well as some other syntactic and semantic peculiarities.

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Le statut syntaxique des objets «nus» en persan

Cited by 11 publications

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L-syntax and phono-symbolism: on the status of ideophones in complexpredicates

L-syntax and phono-symbolism: on the status of ideophones in complexpredicates

Accessibility and word order: The case of ditransitive constructions in Persian

Noun Preverbs in Complex Predicates

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