Noun valency

This article has two objectives. The first is to present an account of valency nouns in Latin. Lyons' typology (1977) envisaging three orders of entities is useful for predicting the number and type of complements used with various nouns. Expansions of all the categories are distinguished: conc...

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Main Author Spevak, Olga
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins 2014
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Edition1
SeriesStudies in Language Companion Series
Subjects
Dependency grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general
Grammar, Comparative and general > Nominals
Grammar, Comparative and general > Noun phrase
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb
Nominals
Noun phrase
Syntax
Verb
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Summary:This article has two objectives. The first is to present an account of valency nouns in Latin. Lyons' typology (1977) envisaging three orders of entities is useful for predicting the number and type of complements used with various nouns. Expansions of all the categories are distinguished: concrete entities, relational nouns, agent nouns, verbal nouns, and nouns expressing qualities. Furthermore, Latin shows interesting phenomena closely related to noun valency, namely nominalization of verbal notions in Early Latin and the construction of the dominant participle. The second objective is to examine argument marking at the noun phrase level. The genitive is the "adnominal" case par excellence; other cases (the dative, accusative, and ablative) as well as prepositional phrases are atypical noun complements in Latin, and furthermore they are often restricted to specific categories of nouns.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9789027259233
9027259232
DOI:10.1075/slcs.158