Directional serial verb constructions in Thai
- Directional Serial Verb Constructions (Directional SVCs), which are a subset of Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs) in Thai and involve motion-related verbs, are studied in this paper. According to two syntactic tests, two phrase structural schemata are involved in Thai Directional SVCs, including a recursive VP-over-VP structure and a complementation structure. Thai Directional SVCs also exhibit a dissociation between constituent structure and linear order. With this distinctive syntactic structure, Thai Directional SVCs are not reduceable to previously described SVCs. Nevertheless, within Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, the rich featural specifications of heads and the mechanisms available for the percolation of specific head properties in a default interpretation of the Head Feature Principle allow for a straightforward model of Thai Directional SVCs.
| Author: | Nuttanart Muansuwan |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-706831 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2000.14 |
| ISSN: | 1535-1793 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications |
| Place of publication: | Stanford, CA |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2001/03/12 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2001 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Contributing Corporation: | International Conference on Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (7 : 2000 : Berkeley, Calif.) |
| Release Date: | 2024/08/28 |
| GND Keyword: | Thailändisch; Bewegungsverb; Serialverb-Konstruktion |
| Volume: | 7.2001 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page Number: | 18 |
| First Page: | 229 |
| Last Page: | 246 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
