Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

106 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. The same arguments can be made for Kewa, Chuave and other Papuan languages exhibiting SR constructi ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 107 (102) a. John forced Bill to leave the party. English b. Je laisserai Jean manger l ...

108 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. There is considerable syntactic evidence that the infinitival construction in sentences like John w ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 109 actor of the second occurs between them; in the nuclear junctures, how­ ever, the v ...

no ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. plementation, the use of clauses as core arguments. See FVV, 251-255, for a detailed discussion of t ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 111 cosubordination (91b), (92b); core coordination (102a,b,c); core subordina­ tion (1 ...

112 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. tactic linkage realizing it should be tighter than the tightest syntactic linkage realizing looser ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 113 b. Artwe-0 alye-lhe-(me)-rlenge ayenge petye-me. man-NOM sing-DTR-(NPP)-DS lSG.NOM ...

114 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. (107b) is therefore an example of cosubordination. In core junctures, illus­ trated in (108), the r ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 115 this construction the subordinate verb functions as a modifier of the matrix verb, ...

116 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. such as modality should "weak obligation" is shared by all cores, whereas it is not shared in core ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 117 Core junctures such as these raise an interesting issue with respect to case markin ...

118 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. clausal domain, then X is the actor of a transitive verb in the clause and would receive ergative c ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 119 6.5 Complementizer position Complementizers are treated as functioning on the level ...

120 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. Adverbial subordinate clauses are not introduced by complementizers in English but rather by predic ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 121 6.6 Focus structure in complex sentences The focus structure projection of a senten ...

122 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 123 order" in German is SVFIN0 or SOVFIN overlooks the fundamental fact that the two ar ...

124 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. 7. Linking syntactic and semantic representations in complex sentences 7.1 General considerations T ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 125 argument, and the non-macrorole direct core argument receives dative marking, follo ...