The Syntax of Aspect: Deriving Thematic and Aspectual InterpretationAssociate Professor Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Tova R. Rapoport, Senior Lecturer Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics Tova 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. |
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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 |
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Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure Melissa Bowerman,Penelope Brown Limited preview - 2008 |
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| Title | The Syntax of Aspect: Deriving Thematic and Aspectual Interpretation Volume 10 of Oxford Studies in Theoretical Oxford linguistics Issue 10 of Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics |
| Editors | Associate Professor Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Tova R. Rapoport, Senior Lecturer Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics Tova Rapoport |
| Contributors | Oxford University Press, ProQuest (Firm) |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0199280436, 9780199280438 |
| Length | 309 pages |
| Subjects | › › Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & Punctuation Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General |
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