Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Cognate object construction
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| Author: | Piroska Csuri | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Syntax
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| Query: |
I am posting this query on behalf of Christiane Fellbaum, Dave
Lebeaux, and myself. Dear Everyone, We would like to find out what work has been done on the so-called cognate object construction, such as: She slept a restful sleep. He laughed a hysterical laugh. They danced a slow, romantic dance. Our understanding is that this construction is widespread among langauges, as they have been observed in Chichewa, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, English, Icelandic, German, etc, with somewhat different morphological/grammatical properties and varying productivity. We are wondering what papers and/or unpublished manuscripts are available on this topic regarding -straight description; -morphological, syntactic and semantic properties of the construction; or -the relation of the cognate object construction to the availability/analysis of other constructions/morphological phenomena. We would like to cast this net wide, so we would be interested in information about any language, and any relevant information. Please respond to Piroska Csuri at: piroska@research.nj.nec.com If there is interest, I will post a summary with the information received. Thanks for any help, Piroska Csuri 4 Independence Way NEC Research Institute Princeton, NJ 08540 Fax: (609)951-2482 The Arts Faculty here in UCD is thinking of starting a degree course combining language/literature and computer science sometime in the near future. Is there anyone out involved in a similar course at the moment who could send me details of the structure of their course? I would be much obliged as it would help us in our adventure into a new area for many of us here! Thanks feargal murphy dept. of linguistics University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4. tel: + 353 1 706 8610 e-mail: feargal.murphy@ucd.ie |
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| LL Issue: | 9.1611 | |
| Date posted: | 14-Nov-1998 | |
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