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Nominal Argument Structure and the Stage-/Individual-Level Contrast in Hindi-Urdu

Nominal Argument Structure and the Stage-/Individual-Level Contrast in Hindi-Urdu

Type of Publication: Contribution to a conference collection
Author: Sulger, Sebastian
Year of publication: 2012
Conference: Seventeenth International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG12), Jun 28, 2012 - Jul 1, 2012, Denpasar, Bali
Published in: Proceedings of the LFG12 Conference / Butt, Miriam; King, Tracy Holloway (ed.). - Stanford : CSLI Publications, 2012. - pp. 582-602. - ISSN 1098-6782
URL of original publication: http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/17/papers/lfg12sulger.pdf, Last access on Feb 25, 2015
Summary:
This paper focuses on a very specific aspect of a construction in Hindi-Urdu involving the verb ho ‘be’. The construction was previously described as displaying a pattern of differential case marking (DCM) in the literature, expressing specific semantic effects. These effectswere previously compared to the contrast known as the stage-/individual-level contrast. The paper will show, however, that this view does not take into account various syntactic and semantic facts about this construction, and argues for a more differentiated view: what has been regarded as a single construction to be differentiated only by the case marking, should rather be treated as two separate constructions with differences in the nominal argument structure, case marking and
semantics.
Subject (DDC): 400 Philology, Linguistics
Bibliography of Konstanz: Yes

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SULGER, Sebastian, 2012. Nominal Argument Structure and the Stage-/Individual-Level Contrast in Hindi-Urdu. Seventeenth International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG12). Denpasar, Bali, Jun 28, 2012 - Jul 1, 2012. In: BUTT, Miriam, ed., Tracy Holloway KING, ed.. Proceedings of the LFG12 Conference. Stanford:CSLI Publications, pp. 582-602. ISSN 1098-6782

@inproceedings{Sulger2012Nomin-30057, title={Nominal Argument Structure and the Stage-/Individual-Level Contrast in Hindi-Urdu}, url={http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/17/papers/lfg12sulger.pdf}, year={2012}, issn={1098-6782}, address={Stanford}, publisher={CSLI Publications}, booktitle={Proceedings of the LFG12 Conference}, pages={582--602}, editor={Butt, Miriam and King, Tracy Holloway}, author={Sulger, Sebastian} }

Nominal Argument Structure and the Stage-/Individual-Level Contrast in Hindi-Urdu 2015-02-25T12:00:03Z This paper focuses on a very specific aspect of a construction in Hindi-Urdu involving the verb ho ‘be’. The construction was previously described as displaying a pattern of differential case marking (DCM) in the literature, expressing specific semantic effects. These effectswere previously compared to the contrast known as the stage-/individual-level contrast. The paper will show, however, that this view does not take into account various syntactic and semantic facts about this construction, and argues for a more differentiated view: what has been regarded as a single construction to be differentiated only by the case marking, should rather be treated as two separate constructions with differences in the nominal argument structure, case marking and<br />semantics. Sulger, Sebastian 2012 Sulger, Sebastian 2015-02-25T12:00:03Z eng

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