Eintrag

Titel

Big Events, Small Clauses. The Grammar of Elaboration

Personen

Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Dag Haug

Jahr

2012

Typ

Sammelband

Verlag

de Gruyter

Ort

Berlin usw.

Reihe

Language, context and cognition

Band

12

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Englisch
Französisch
Griechisch
Latein
Norwegisch
Russisch

Schlagwörter

Konstruktion
Nebensatz
Partizip
Syntax

Beiträge

• Ramm: German wobei-clauses in translation
• Helland: Open adjuncts: participial syntax
• Behrens: Competing structures: the discourse perspective
• Solfjeld: Participant- and event-oriented adjectival adjuncts in translation German-Norwegian
• Hobæk Haff: On absolutes in French, German, and Norwegian

Abstract

This book investigates specific syntactic means of event elaboration across seven Indo-European languages (English, German, Norwegian, French, Russian, Latin and Ancient Greek): bare and comitative small clauses ("absolutes"), participle constructions and related clause-like but non-finite adjuncts that increase descriptive granularity with respect to constitutive parts of the matrix event (elaboration in the narrowest sense), or describe eventualities that are co-located and connected with but not part of the matrix event. The book falls in two parts. Part I addresses central theoretical issues: How is the co-eventive interpretation of such adjuncts achieved? What is the internal syntax of participial and converb constructions? How do these constructions function at the discourse level, as compared to various finite structures that are available for co-eventive elaboration? Part II takes an empirical cross-linguistic perspective. It consists of five self-contained chapters that are based on parallel corpora and study either the use of a specific construction across at least two of the seven object languages, or how a specific construction is rendered in other languages.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/78660