Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

26 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. about this topic. The focus domain is the predicate (or part of it). The object NP is the unmarked f ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 27 proposition underlying the construction) is marked as the focus and in which both th ...

28 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. Inversion may play a role in the presentational sentence focus construction, as in (13), and an /i-c ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 29 there is "a constraint on subjects which restricts them to being highly topi­ cal, o ...

30 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. 2.5 Formal representation of focus structure It is necessary to integrate focus structure into the p ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 31 ...

32 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. icate focus) and (12b) (sentence focus) are given.^16 Unlike English, the PFD is not coextensive wit ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 33 (18) a. Open the doorl·^1 b. / expected to find someone mowing the lawn, and mowing ...

34 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. 3.2 Verb classes and logical structures Underlying any system of lexical representation for verbs an ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 35 Criterion States Achievements Accomplishments Activities Occurs with progressive No ...

36 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. state predicates, but in fact he fails to come up with a derivational scheme for activities analogou ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 37 c. ACTIVITIES The children cried. cry' (the children) The ball rolled. roll' (the ba ...

38 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. This derivational pattern applies to a major subclass of stative verbs in Tepehua. The prefix ta- is ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 39 3.3 Semantic roles Almost all syntactic theories operate, either explicitly or impli ...

40 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. and the desk and the office are locatives, the first arguments of two-place locational stative verbs ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 41 ments in the LS of the predicate must appear in the core of the clause. However, it ...

42 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. thematic relations of more agent-like or more patient-like roles. This con­ tinuum is flexible, for ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 43 first, they have constituted at least a partial semantic representation of the verb, ...

44 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. the actor is subject and the undergoer direct object, while in a passive the undergoer is subject an ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 45 with a verb which takes agent/effector and theme or patient arguments, the agent/eff ...