Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2007
Descrizione fisica	xvii, 243 p. : ill
Disciplina	415
Altri autori (Persone)	ReulandEric J BhattacharyaTanmoy <1962-> SpathasGiorgos
Collana	Linguistik aktuell =Linguistics today
Soggetto topico	Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb phrase Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-15194-0 9786612151941 90-272-9126-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
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Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2007
Descrizione fisica	xvii, 243 p. : ill
Disciplina	415
Altri autori (Persone)	ReulandEric J BhattacharyaTanmoy <1962-> SpathasGiorgos
Collana	Linguistik aktuell =Linguistics today
Soggetto topico	Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb phrase Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax
ISBN	9786612151941 9781282151949 1282151940 9789027291264 9027291268
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	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 -- References -- 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 -- References -- 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 -- References -- 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 -- References -- Adpositions, particles and the arguments they introduce -- 1. Introduction -- 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 -- References -- Argument structure and aspect -- 1. Introduction -- 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 -- References -- Argument features, clausal structure and the computation -- 1. Introduction -- 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 -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- 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 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Wh patterns in Bangla/Bengali -- 3. What > -- 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 -- References -- Look across -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Blocking and its discontents -- 3. Sarcastic causatives -- 4. Look across and sarcastic passives -- References -- Author index -- Subject index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
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