semantic classifications of predicate clauses
Posted: August 18th, 2014, 3:16 pm
Evert van Emde Boas & Luuk Huitink [1] breakdown a certain subgroup(blue) of complex sentences into 12 semantic categories. I have read their discussion of this several times and it is not easy to give a synopsis. I haven't seen this in any other grammar. Perhaps someone else has found a more lucid presentation somewhere[2]. Actually each sentence in the presentation is lucid but what I am having difficulty doing is putting it all together.
predicates - entering into syntactic relationships with predicates forming complex sentences
verbal complementation
Is this semantic classification something we "need to know" or can I just ignore it?
I have not problem understanding the breakdown of semantic classifications, where I run into trouble is on page 144 paragraph two, "Some semantic consequences … " this paragraph makes some sweeping generalizations which sound very convincing but remind me of other such paragraphs which sounded very good until you tested them against actual usage.
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predicates - entering into syntactic relationships with predicates forming complex sentences
verbal complementation
Is this semantic classification something we "need to know" or can I just ignore it?
I have not problem understanding the breakdown of semantic classifications, where I run into trouble is on page 144 paragraph two, "Some semantic consequences … " this paragraph makes some sweeping generalizations which sound very convincing but remind me of other such paragraphs which sounded very good until you tested them against actual usage.
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[2] They cite a work by Cristofaro, Sonia. 2003. Subordination. (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. But doesn't look like it has anything particularly to do with the Greek language.Provider: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
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TY - CHAP
TI - Syntax
AU - van Emde Boas, Evert
AU - Huitink, Luuk
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
SN - 9781444317398
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444317398.ch10
DO - 10.1002/9781444317398.ch10
SP - 134
EP - 150
KW - study of syntax - with the ways words are combined to form sentences
KW - basic features of Greek sentence structure and terminology
KW - sentence core - optional causal adverbial modifier as a form of preposition-phrase
KW - syntactic relationships in Greek - expressed by nominal case-endings
KW - peculiarities of Greek case system - five cases, distilled from Indo-European eight-case system
KW - noun phrases - the article and attributive modifiers
KW - predicates - entering into syntactic relationships with predicates forming complex sentences
KW - verbal complementation
KW - adverbial relations between predicates - expressed by same means as complementary ones
KW - Greek word order - insurmountable problems for traditional methods of syntactic description
T2 - A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language
PY - 2010
AB - This chapter contains sections titled:
* Introduction
* Cases and Agreement
* Noun Phrases: The Article, Attributive Modifiers
* The Verb: Mood, Voice, and Tense-Aspect
* Complex Sentences
* Word Order
* Further Reading
ER -