Richard K. Larson

List of John Benjamins publications for which Richard K. Larson plays a role.

Journal

Book series

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Advances in Iranian Linguistics

Edited by Richard K. Larson, Sedigheh Moradi and Vida Samiian

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 351] 2020. vi, 309 pp.
Subjects Other Indo-European languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Samiian, Vida and Richard K. Larson 2023 Chapter 4. Middle Persian EzafeAdvances in Iranian Linguistics II, Karimi, Simin, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri and Jian Gang Ngui (eds.), pp. 100–129 | Chapter
This chapter describes one phase of the historical development of the “Ezafe” morpheme, a significant feature of Western Iranian languages. Ezafe is argued to have arisen in Middle Persian (MP) by a reanalysis of the Old Persian relative pronoun ‘haya’ due to a preponderance of copula-less… read more
Larson, Richard K. 2022 Adjectives, case and concordA0 – The Lexical Status of Adjectives, Panagiotidis, Phoevos and Moreno Mitrović (eds.), pp. 73–120 | Chapter
Larson, Richard K. and Chong Zhang 2022 Applied objects in Mandarin and the nature of selectionNew Explorations in Chinese Theoretical Syntax: Studies in honor of Yen-Hui Audrey Li, Simpson, Andrew (ed.), pp. 357–394 | Chapter
This article examines a range of data involving non-canonical objects in Mandarin mono- and di-transitive sentences. It argues that these represent applied object constructions, in which an oblique argument is “promoted” to the status of a direct object. The core theoretical apparatus employed… read more
Larson, Richard K. and Vida Samiian 2020 Chapter 10. The Ezafe construction revisitedAdvances in Iranian Linguistics, Larson, Richard K., Sedigheh Moradi and Vida Samiian (eds.), pp. 173–236 | Chapter
This chapter addresses the nature, distribution and function of the Ezafe morpheme, a distinguishing grammatical feature of many of the Iranian languages. We review three main analyses advanced in the wide literature on the subject: semantic, morphological, and syntactic. We argue that the… read more
Larson, Richard K. and Miyuki Sawada 2012 Root transformations & quantificational structureMain Clause Phenomena: New Horizons, Aelbrecht, Lobke, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye (eds.), pp. 47–78 | Article
Hooper and Thompson (1973) observe that root transformations (RTs) occur in asserted adverbial adjuncts (because-clauses) but not in presupposed ones (when/before/after-clauses). Developing the idea that adverbial clauses can be analyzed semantically as parts of quantificational structures, we… read more
Larson, Richard K. 1991 Some Issues in Verb SerializationSerial Verbs: Grammatical, Comparative and Cognitive Approaches, Lefebvre, Claire (ed.), pp. 185–210 | Article