TY  - THES
U1  - Dissertation / Habilitation
A1  - Brandt, Patrick
T1  - Cipient predication : unifying double object, dative experiencer and existential/presentational constructions
N2  - The principal claim of this dissertation is that there is a unique structural core shared by Double Object, Dative Experiencer and Existential/Presentational constructions. This core is argued to take the form of a Cipient Predication structure, `cipient covering traditional notions like (affected) source/goal, recipient, indirect object or dative experiencer. Central questions arising in defining Cipient Predication are: How are cipients thematically licensed, and what is the role of there in argument-structural terms? What is the structural locus of cipients/there? What is the role and nature of dative case? How can the possessive interpretation, the blocking and definiteness effects associated with the above-mentioned constructions be explained? Cipients are presented as external arguments and logical subjects (location individuals) of predicates derived from a propositional meaning embedded in the VP, the predicate formed by a lower tense head `little t that is overtly realized as there. Little t is argued to encode a distinction at the reference time level, structural dative hinging on a tense property like structural nominative. The cipient relates as a whole to a part to a VP-internal location argument that together with the theme furnishes the propositional meaning (`possession ). As logical subjects, cipients anchor the predicate to the utterance context, forcing its interpretation in extralinguistic terms (`blocking effects ). It is proposed that lacking structurally encoded subjects, Existential/Presentational constructions are not saturated expressions in syntax, precluding the interpretation of certain quantifiers (most/every, vide `definiteness effects ). Cipient Predication, couched in terms of the Minimalist Program (in particular, Chomsky 1999) and a semantics relying on tense and the ontological distinction of locations as well as scalar and part-whole structure, should be of interest to scholars working on datives, argument structure, and the syntax/semantics/pragmatics interface more generally.
T3  - LOT Dissertation Series - 74 
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Verbalphrase
KW  - Satztyp
KW  - Dativ
KW  - Minimalist program <Linguistik>
KW  - Thematische Relation
KW  - Kasus
KW  - cipient
KW  - predication
KW  - double object
KW  - experiencer
KW  - existential, tense
KW  - argument structure
KW  - dative
KW  - definiteness
Y2  - 2003
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-41508
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-41508
SN  - 90-76864-357
SB  - 90-76864-357
SP  - 285
S1  - 285
PB  - LOT Publications
CY  - Utrecht
ER  -