Description
| Summary: | "This monograph studies stative predicates from a neo-constructionist perspective and integrates them in a comprehensive theory of event and argument structure. It focuses on two sets of stative verbs: govern-type verbs and object experiencer psychological verbs. For govern-verbs, it shows how notions such as causativity and resultativity can also be ingredients of stative predicates and be derived syntactically. The consequences of this proposal are further pursued in a crosslinguistic investigation of adjectival passives, which are stative predicate of sorts. For object-experiencer psychological verbs, it is shown that their Experiencer theta-role can and should be derived as an aspectual entailment mediated by prepositional structure. In defending this view, this monograph reveals a syntactic parallelism between location verbs and object-experiencer psychological verbs in many languages that has hitherto gone unnoticed. This book will primarily appeal to researchers interested in lexical aspect and its connection to morphosyntax"--
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9027260516
9789027260512 |
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| ISSN: | 0166-0829 ; |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 04, 2020). |
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