Serial Music and Serialism

Serial or 12-tone music has proved to be an enduring 20th century style that has generated a wide range of writings. This much-needed work provides the only comprehensive, up-to-date guide to research on serial music, offering an annotated bibliography with nearly 500 citations from books and journals from 1950 to 1995.

Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

xv

Note on Orthography and Tones

xix

Introduction: In Search of Serial Verb Constructions

3

(16)

Previous Research on SVCs

6

(6)

Early Research

6

(2)

Principles and Parameters Approach

8

(4)

On the Definition of SVCs

12

(4)

Interpretation and Verb Sequencing Constraints

12

(4)

Conclusion

16

(3)

Notes

16

(3)

Two Types of SVCs Versus Covert Coordinations

19

(68)

Distribution and Licensing of Manner Adverbs

19

(24)

I-type Adverb before First Verb

24

(2)

I-type Adverb before Second Verb

26

(10)

N-type Adverb after First Verb

36

(4)

N-type Adverb after Second Verb

40

(3)

Distribution of Adjuncts: Locative Prepositional Phrase

43

(6)

Locative PP after First Verb

44

(2)

Locative PP after Second Verb

46

(3)

Consequences of Adverb and PP Placements

49

(1)

Object Sharing

50

(7)

Evidence for Empty Category: Adverbial Particle

51

(3)

Null pro Licensing: Unaccusativity and Transitivity

54

(3)

Subject NP

57

(10)

Interpretation of Subject and Agent

57

(5)

Distribution of Subject Pronoun

62

Subject-oriented Interpretation of `tobore

57

(10)

Phonology-syntax Interface

67

(7)

E-head and Relative Tones

68

(1)

Wh-extraction and Relative Tones

69

(5)

Resulative SVCs, Aspect, and Temporal Adverbs

74

(7)

Differences in Aspectual Properties

74

(1)

Process-Activity Restriction on First Verb

75

(2)

Event Delimiter

77

(2)

Temporal Adverbs

79

(2)

Conclusion

81

(6)

Notes

81

(6)

Predicate Cleft and Event Quantification in SVCs and CCs

87

(30)

The Edo Predicate Cleft Construction

90

(2)

Evidence for Category Conversion

90

(2)

The Status of the Derived Nominal

92

(3)

Semantic Interpretation

92

(1)

Cognate Object as Event Argument

93

(2)

The Syntax of Predicate Cleft

95

(8)

On Event Quantification

101

(2)

Predicate Cleft and SVCs

103

(10)

Resultative SVCs

103

(5)

Consequential SVCs and CCs

108

(5)

Conclusion

113

(4)

Notes

114

(3)

Double Objects and Object Sharing in SVCs

117

(28)

SVCs and the Double Object Construction

117

(19)

DOCs and the Associative Construction

118

(5)

DOCs in Resultative and Consequential SVCs

123

(9)

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Serial Music and Serialism

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