Argument structure and syntactic relations : a cross-linguistic perspective / edited by Maia Duguine, Susana Huidobro and Nerea Madariaga.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duguine, Maia.

Huidobro, Susana.

Madariaga, Nerea.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 158.

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 158

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb phrase.

Physical Description:

vi, 347 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The present study examines the hypothesis that the acquisition of Verb Argument Structure (VAS) is regulated by a set of universal, innate linking rules between thematic roles and syntactic functions (Pinker 1984) against the hypothesis that linking patterns are learned (Bowerman 1990). The study draws on naturalistic longitudinal speech samples from two Hebrew-speaking girls between ages 1;5-2;9 [MLU 1 - 4.5]. The findings show no advantage for the innate linking hypothesis. Instead, they support the hypothesis whereby children initially acquire VAS on the basis of linguistic experience with individual verbs (Tomasello 1992). In this process, input plays an important role.

Contents:

Argument structure and syntactic relations / Maia Duguine, Susana Huidobro and Nerea Madariaga

Part I. Semantic and syntactic properties of the event structure. Aspectual composition in causatives / Maria Babicheva and Mikhail Ivanov

Atelicity and anticausativization / Ekaterina Lyutikova and Sergei Tatevosov

Minimalist variability in the verb phrase / Jonathan E. MacDonald

On the L-Syntax of manner and causation / Jaume Mateu

Nominalization, event, aspect and argument structure: A syntactic approach / Petra Sleeman and Ana Maria Brito

Part II. A cartographic view on argument structure. The syntax of argument structure / Leonard H. Babby

Argument structure and quantifier scope / John Bowers

Part III. Syntactic heads involved in argument structure. An L-Syntax for adjuncts / Ángel J. Gallego

The derivation of dative alternations / Javier Ormazabal and Juan Romero

Advances in Functional Linguistics : Basque ditransitives / Beñat Oyharçabal

Applicative structure and Mandarin ditransitives / Waltraud Paul and John Whitman

Unintentionally out of control / Knut Tarald Taraldsen

Part IV. Argument structure in language acquisition. Zero time-arguments in French child language / Hamida Demirdache and Oana Lungu

Reevaluating the role of innate linking rules in the acquisition of verb argument structure: Evidence from child Hebrew / Sigal Uziel-Karl

Subject Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612663383

9781282663381

1282663380

9789027288134

9027288135

OCLC:

657756356