A nanosyntactic approach to Dutch deadjectival verbs
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Linguistics in the Netherlands |
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| Citation | |
| Web | https://benjamins.com/catalog/avt.00072.wyn |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/avt.00072.wyn |
| Keywords | deadjectival verbs; change-of-state verbs; causative-inchoative alternation; nanosyntax; phrasal spellout |
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| Description | There are three ways of deriving verbs in Dutch: through zero marking, through suffix-ation, and through prefixation. We focus on prefixed dead- jectival verbs, contrasting two views. According to the first view, prefixed verbs are left-headed: the prefix is responsible for the change in category, i.e. [V ver [A breed]]. The second view holds that prefixed verbs are right- headed, and involve a zero verbalizing suffix, i.e., [V ver [V [A breed] Ř]]. We argue in this paper for a mixed, nanosyntactic, approach. We adopt Ramchand’s (2008) decomposition of the verb and argue that the prefix spells out part of the verbal structure and the verbal root spells out another part. |