Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
935442 Lingua 2014 29 Pages PDF
Abstract

This article casts additional light on typologies of (non)configurationality by examining three different kinds of ‘mixed categories’ of syntax-semantics mismatch in Georgian: masdar nominalizations, -isa-s gerundives, and infinitival future participles in the adverbial case. Having the semantic properties of clauses while maintaining purely nominal syntax, these constructions challenge theories of configurationality that depend on isomorphisms between constituency structures and the semantic properties of verbal predicates, providing interesting evidence for the ‘dual-structure’ hypothesis ( Austin and Bresnan, 1996; also Sadock, 1991, Culicover and Jackendoff, 2005 and Wier, 2011).

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