Argument structure / edited by Eric Reuland, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Giorgos Spathas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reuland, Eric J.

Bhattacharya, Tanmoy, 1962-

Spathas, Giorgos.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 108.

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 108

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb phrase.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Physical Description:

xvii, 243 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The standard notions of suppletion ansd blocking are tried against the data of Bangla causatives and found wanting. The framework of formalist generative grammar that uses these notions are tried against the surprising data of Bangla sarcastic causatives and found wanting. Remedies are suggested along substantivist lines but in a formalist implementation. Look Across, the new device proposed for this purpose, straddles the syntax-pragmatics boundary.

Contents:

Argument Structure

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

List of contributors

Introduction

References

Do verbs have argument structure?

1. Background and aims

2. Frames

3. Made-up verbs

4. The verb's flexibility

5. A brief note on the role of lexical semantics in syntactic theory

Projecting argument structure

1. Introduction

2. Background

2.1 Full Interpretation

3. Contact verbs

3.1 Contact as change

3.2 Contact activities

3.3 Alternating contact verbs

4. Conclusion

The argument structure of the dative construction

1. The dative construction and its alternates

2. Dravidian has no adjective

3. The dative construction in English

4. The possessive construction in English and Hungarian

5. A Lexical Relational Structure (LRS) for Experiencer and Possessor theta roles

6. The genesis of adjectives

Syntactic categories and lexical argument structure

1. Syntactic categories and argument structure

2. Case and the category P

3. Postpositions and adjectives in Kannada

4. The licensing of imperfect and perfect participles

5. Dative experiencer predicates as arguments of nouns

Adpositions, particles and the arguments they introduce

2. P as a universal category

2.1 Adposition-like words crosslinguistically

2.2 Identifying P in different languages

2.2.1 English

2.2.2 Chinese

2.2.3 Northern Sámi

2.3 Cross-linguistic generalizations

3. Figure and Ground

3.1 Adposition and Ground

3.2 Particles

3.2.1 Particle and category

3.2.2 Particles and constituency

3.2.3 Particles and c-selection

3.2.4 Particles and s-selection

4. Non-spatial P

4.1 Metaphorical extensions of spatial P

4.2 Grammatical P

4.3 Case markers.

5. Adpositions and verbs

5.1 Split-V and Split-P

5.2 Arguments of V

5.3 Ground in motion

5.4 Tense versus specifiers

6. Conclusion

Abbreviations

Argument structure and aspect

2. The two imperfectives

3. Mohanan and Mohanan's analysis of aa constructions

3.1 The presupposition effect

4. Unaccusatives and eventive v

4.1 The contrast between the -ukayaa and the -unnu constructions

5. Manner adverbs: Further evidence for a focus effect

5.1 The position of adverbs

6. Summary

Argument features, clausal structure and the computation

2. Background: Case is not a driving force - Person and EPP are

3. The structural cases are interpretable

4. Grammar is event-speech matching

4.1 Clausal architecture I: background

4.2 Clausal architecture II: extensions

4.3 Evidence: the mysterious First Position Constraint

5. Logophoric matching and speech event binding: some initial observations

On theta role assignment by feature checking

1. Thematic roles in minimalist theory: a problem?

2. Fanselow's (2001) arguments against scrambling of argument DPs

2.1 Floating quantifiers

2.2 Parasitic gaps

2.3 Freezing effects

2.4 Wh- phrases in situ

2.5 Reconstruction

2.6 Quantifier scope

3. The alternative proposal: the head F that attracts an object

4. Scrambling and focus: Kidwai (2000)

5. "Theta feature" checking and Attract: Manzini and Roussou (2000)

6. The analysis of theta roles as feature bundles

7. "Theta features" and thematic roles

7.1 General s-selection considerations

7.2 Lexical selection of compounds

7.3 The Unaccusative Alternation

7.4 Motivation for chain formation

7.5 Causatives and theta roles

8. Conclusion

References.

Argument prominence and the nature of superiority violations

2. Wh patterns in Bangla/Bengali

3. What &gt

who patterns and Superiority in English

3.1 Animacy distinctions among wh-phrases

3.2 Thematic relations and empathetic centre of interest

3.3 Prosodic factors

3.4 Referential familiarity of expected answers to wh-questions

4. Bangla sluicing revisited

5. The status of Superiority, and argument prominence

Look across

2. Blocking and its discontents

3. Sarcastic causatives

4. Look across and sarcastic passives

Author index

Subject index

The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612151941

9781282151949

1282151940

9789027291264

9027291268

OCLC:

648331536