Arguments and structure : studies on the architecture of the sentence / Teun Hoekstra ; edited by Rint Sybesma ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoekstra, Teun.

Contributor:

Sybesma, R. P. E.

Series:

Studies in generative grammar ; 67.

Studies in generative grammar ; 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book contains 14 articles by Teun Hoekstra (1953-1998) on core issues in syntactic theory. Some articles focus on the structure of DP, others on the structure of the sentence as a whole, while others still deal explicitly with the parallels between the two. The papers are distributed over four sections: "Argument structure", "T-chains", "The morpho-syntax of verbal and nominal projections" and "Small clauses". More than half of the articles in this book are published here for the first time or appear for the first time in English. Hoekstra's work is characterized by a fundamental interest in the central questions of syntactic theory, most notably the relation between argument structure and X-bar structure. This concentrated interest led to a deep understanding of the notion of transitivity, with respect to both the status of the external argument and that of the internal argument, where "status" refers to both the content and the licensing. In this collection of papers, Hoekstra reports on his insights in these matters. As far as content and licensing of the external argument is concerned, this collection contains papers on the relation between passives and their active counterparts, the parallels between possessives and transitives and the differences and similarities between past participles and infinitives. As to the internal argument, we find papers addressing sentential complementation, verbal affixation and resultatives. And there is a whole section on tense, and its role in keeping the sentence together. One of the papers in this collection is Hoekstra's classic, but hitherto unpublished "Small clauses everywhere" (more than 70 pages), which summarizes Hoekstra's views on such issues as resultatives, particle verbs and double object constructions.

Contents:

Possession and transitivity

The indirect object, its status and place

Categories and arguments

The active-passive configuration

Verbal affixation

Why Kaatje was not heard sing a song (with Hans Bennis)

T-chains and auxiliaries (with Jacqueline Gueron)

Clitics in romance and the study of head-movement

ECP, tense and islands

Bracketing paradoxes do not exist (with Harry van der Hulst and Frans van der Putten)

The nominal infinitive (with Pim Wehrmann)

Parallels between nominal and verbal projections

Complex verbs (with Monic Lansu and Marion Westerduin)

Small clauses everywhere.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-410) and index.

ISBN:

9786612193880

9781282193888

1282193880

9783110197358

3110197359

OCLC:

191940954