The Syntax of Aspect: Deriving Thematic and Aspectual InterpretationNomi Erteschik-Shir, Tova R. Rapoport This collection of new work focuses on issues at the lexicon-syntax interface. It presents innovative analyses of theoretical issues of aspectual interpretation in a variety of languages. The authors address questions such as to what extent can variation in verbal meaning, and thematic information can be determined in the syntax, and how the interpretation of various syntactic constructions is derived, once lexical information is minimized. A subset of the articles develops theories that take as their starting point the lexical-syntactic framework of the late Ken Hale and Jay Keyser, prominent among which is their own chapter. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Aspect and the Syntax of Argument Structure | 11 |
How Do Verbs Get Their Names? Denominal Verbs Manner | 42 |
Path Predicates | 65 |
Tense Person and Transitivity | 89 |
Complex Aspectual Structure in HindiUrdu | 117 |
The Aspect of Agency | 154 |
Agents and Causes in Malagasy and Tagalog | 174 |
Event Structure and Morphosyntax in Navajo | 190 |
Constructions Lexical Semantics and | 215 |
Resultatives under the EventArgument | 255 |
Implications | 274 |
References | 287 |
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Common terms and phrases
adjectives Agent Akt F Aktionsart analysis Anjum argument expression argument projection argument structure aspectual atelic causative clause Clitics complement complex predicate Conflation construal construction context copula dance denoted derived direct object discourse discussion Dowty end-point English Erteschik-Shir event structure examples external argument functional Grammar Hale and Keyser head Hindi/Urdu homomorphism inceptive interface interpretation intransitive Jane Jill John l-syntax languages lexical category lexical items lexical semantics lexicon license light verb Linguistics M-PROG main verb Malagasy meaning components morpheme morphology Nadya nominal noun overt path person F phase syntax phonological plural position preposition properties proposed Qualia Qualia structure Ramchand Rapoport Rappaport Hovav relation representation result root Saddaf semantic sentence small clause spatial Spec VP specifier stative sub-event syntactic T-controller Tagalog telic template temporal tense thematic role theme argument theory theta-role transitive unaccusative unergative verbs University verb base verb word verbal
References to this book
Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure Melissa Bowerman,Penelope Brown Limited preview - 2008 |