The End of Argument Structure?

The End of Argument Structure?

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Other Authors: María Cristina Cuervo (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: BRILL 2012.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Semantics.
semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
Semantics
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS: THE END OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURE?
  • COPYRIGHT PAGE
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  • CHAPTER 1 REMARKS ON ARGUMENT STRUCTURE
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. THE ISSUE
  • 3. THE QUESTIONS
  • 4. THE PAPERS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • CHAPTER 2 ON THE ADJECTIVAL COMPONENT OF CHANGE OF STATE VERBS IN SPANISH
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. INTERPRETATIVE AND FORMAL PROPERTIES OF VARI CONSTRUCTIONS
  • 3. BACKGROUND AND PROPOSAL
  • 3.1. Lexical Decomposition as Syntax
  • 3.2. Head Movement
  • 3.3. VARI Constructions: A Hypothesis
  • 4. VARI CONSTRUCTIONS AS MULTIPLE COPY PRONUNCIATION OF DECOMPOSED VERBS
  • 4.1. Degree Modifiers in Change of State Verbs
  • 4.2. On the Unique Character of BIEN
  • 4.3. On Pronunciation of Multiple Copies
  • 4.4. Consequences for Break-Type Verbs
  • 5. CONCLUSIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • CHAPTER 3 ''OBLIQUENESS'' AS A COMPONENT OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURE IN AMHARIC
  • 1. GENERAL FRAMING
  • 2. BASICS OF AMHARIC ARGUMENT STRUCTURE
  • 3. HIERARCHY IN TRIADIC VERBS
  • 4. ANOTHER FACTOR IN AMHARIC ARGUMENT STRUCTURE: ''OBLIQUENESS''
  • 4.1. Two Kinds of Triadic Verbs
  • 4.2. Dyadic Verbs with Oblique Arguments
  • 4.3. Impersonal Monadic Verbs
  • 5. ''OBLIQUE'' ARGUMENTS AS NPs GOVERNED BY A NULL P
  • 5.1. Motivating the Core Proposal
  • 5.2. Developing the Core Proposal
  • 5.3. Applying the Core Proposal: Impersonal Verbs
  • 5.4. Special Issues with Dyadic Constructions
  • 6. ISSUES ARISING
  • 6.1. Is Obliqueness Semantically Predictable?
  • 6.2. Why Can Only Certain Arguments be Oblique?
  • 6.3. Is the Oblique-Direct Distinction Universal?
  • 6.4. Possible Implications for Projectionism versus Constructionism
  • 7. CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • CHAPTER 4 THE ANTIPASSIVE AND ITS RELATION TO SCALAR STRUCTURE
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. BACKGROUND ON SCALES.
  • 3. THE ERGATIVE/ANTIPASSIVE DISTINCTION AS A RESULT/MANNER DISTINCTION
  • 3.1. Aspectual Differences
  • 3.2. Manner Verbs and Object Deletion
  • 3.3. Suffixless Antipassive
  • 3.4. Challenges to the Manner/Path Analysis
  • 4. THE INCHOATIVE
  • 5. ADDING ARGUMENTS IN THE ANTIPASSIVE
  • 6. CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • CHAPTER 5 SOME STRUCTURAL ANALOGIES BETWEEN EXISTENTIAL INTERPRETATION AND TELICITY
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. ESTABLISHING THE EFFECTS OF OBJECTS
  • 2.1. Transitivity
  • 2.2. Structure of Objects
  • 3. THEORIES
  • 3.1. Event Composition
  • 3.2. Information Structure
  • 3.3. Event Composition or Information Structure?
  • 4. EXTENDING EVENT COMPOSITION
  • 4.1. Composing the VP
  • 4.2. Voice in Events and States
  • 5. CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • CHAPTER 6 EXTERNAL ARGUMENT-INTRODUCING HEADS: VOICE AND APPL
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 1.1. Assumptions
  • 1.2. Organization of the chapter
  • 2. VOICE AND APPL ARE SEMANTICALLY DIFFERENT
  • 2.1. No agent-introducing heads in the complements of causatives
  • 2.2. ApplP can be the complement of causatives
  • 2.3. Korean morphological causatives as applicative-selecting causatives
  • 2.4. Semantics of Appl and Voice
  • 3. VOICE AND APPL ARE SYNTACTICALLY DIFFERENT
  • 3.1. English experiencer have
  • 3.2. Morphological evidence to peripheral Appl
  • 4. VOICE AND APPL ARE NOT FLAVORS OF ONE ANOTHER
  • 5. CONSEQUENCES
  • 6. CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • CHAPTER 7 TOWARD THE END OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURE
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. ARGUMENTS AGAINST LEXICAL ADICITIES
  • 2.1. Davidsonian versus Neo-Davidsonian Representations
  • 2.2. Severing the Agent
  • 2.3. Focus and Full Thematic Separation
  • 2.4. Variable Verbal Adicities
  • 3. IDIOMS AND THEMES
  • 4. CHALLENGES FOR THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE
  • 5. CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES.
  • CHAPTER 8 A NOTE ON APPLICATIVES
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. HIGH AND LOW APPLICATIVES
  • 3. APPLICATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN SLOVENIAN
  • 3.1. Applicative Meanings and Structures of Ditransitive Sentences
  • 3.2. Possessor Dative Construction, Unergative Verbs, and Static Verbs
  • 3.3. Exceptions
  • 4. DESCRIBING THE EXCEPTIONS FROM THE SYNTAX SIDE
  • 4.1. Prepositional Dative Construction in Slovenian
  • 4.2. Word Order and the High and Low Applicative Readings
  • 5. DESCRIBING THE EXCEPTIONS FROM THE SEMANTIC SIDE
  • 5.1. A Verb-Sensitive Approach to Dative Alternation
  • 5.2. A Possible Solution
  • 6. OTHER SOUTH SLAVIC LANGUAGES
  • 7. CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • CHAPTER 9 THE MANNER/RESULT COMPLEMENTARITY REVISITED: A SYNTACTIC APPROACH
  • 1. THE MANNER/RESULT COMPLEMENTARITY
  • 2. A SYNTACTIC APPROACH TO THE MANNER/RESULT COMPLEMENTARITY
  • 3. THE VERB CLIMB AND THE MANNER/RESULT COMPLEMENTARITY
  • 4. CONCLUSIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • CHAPTER 10 SYNCRETISM AS PF-REPAIR: THE CASE OF SE-INSERTION IN SPANISH
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. THE DISTRIBUTION OF SE CONSTRUCTIONS IN SPANISH
  • 3. SOME ASSUMPTIONS: FEATURE INHERITANCE AND SUBCATEGORIZATION
  • 4. THE SYNTAX OF SE CONSTRUCTIONS
  • 5. A PHASE-BASED APPROACH TO CL-INSERTION
  • 6. CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • CHAPTER 11 ARGUMENTS FROM THE ROOT VS. ARGUMENTS FROM THE SYNTAX
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO MALAGASY SYNTAX
  • 3. SYNTAX CREATES ARGUMENT STRUCTURE: PRELIMINARY SUPPORT
  • 3.1. v and Its Flavors in Malagasy
  • 3.2. Other Instantiations of v
  • 4. SYNTAX CREATES ARGUMENT STRUCTURE: A PROBLEM
  • 4.1. Other uses of (m)aha- (from Phillips, 1996)
  • 4.2. Telicity in Malagasy
  • 4.3. External Arguments Added by Syntax
  • 4.4. External Arguments: Argument Structure vs. Syntax
  • 5. ROOTS PROVIDE ARGUMENT STRUCTURE: PRELIMINARY REPORT.
  • 6. CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • SUBJECT INDEX.

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