Origins of predicates : evidence from Plains Cree

This book offers a new perspective on natural language predicates by analyzing data from the Plains Cree language. Contrary to traditional understanding, Cree verbal complexes are syntactic constructs composed of morphemes as syntactic objects that are subject to structurally defined constraints, such as c-command. Tomio Hirose illustrates this in his study of vP syntax, event semantics, morphology-syntax mappings, unaccusativity, noun incorporation, and valency-reducing phenomena.

Abbreviations and Symbols Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Zero Eventuality Hypothesis Chapter 3 ?P Structures and the Syntax of Affixation Chapter 4 ?P Structures and Noun Incorporation Phenomena Chapter 5 ?P Structures and Operator-Binding Phenomena Chapter 6 Conclusion Chapter 7 Appendix: Deriving Dynamic Unaccusatives via Reflexivization