Tavs Bjerre
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tavs Bjerre plays a role.
Article
2014. Grammatical metaphors and there-insertion in Danish. Events, Arguments, and Aspects: Topics in the Semantics of Verbs, Robering, Klaus (ed.), pp. 89–114
Transitive verbs are in general not allowed in there-constructions in Danish, but a small subset is, and this paper gives an explanation. We suggest two constraints on there-insertion, a subject with the semantic role of themeand an empty object position, and show how the subset of verbs meets… read more | Article