Stative inquiries : causes, results, experiences, and locations

Stative inquiries : causes, results, experiences, and locations / Alfredo García-Pardo, Purchase College.

"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...

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Main Author: García-Pardo, Alfredo (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; v. 264.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Semantics, Comparative.
Verbos (Lingüística)
Sintaxis
Grammar, Comparative and General > Verb
Grammar, Comparative and General > Syntax
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb
Semantics, Comparative
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Stative Inquiries
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Setting the stage
  • 1.2 Goals and scope of this monograph
  • 1.3 Structure of this book
  • Chapter 2. 'Aktionsart' and argument structure: A state of the art
  • Chapter 3. Stative causatives
  • Chapter 4. Stative participles
  • Chapter 5. Stative psychological and locative verbs
  • Chapter 6. Conclusions
  • 2. 'Aktionsart' and argument structure: A state of the art
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 The classic event types
  • 2.2.1 States
  • 2.2.2 Activities
  • 2.2.3 Telics
  • 2.2.4 The tests
  • 2.2.4.1 Events vs. states
  • 2.2.4.2 Telic vs. atelic
  • 2.2.5 Two types of telic predicates
  • 2.2.5.1 Accomplishments
  • 2.2.5.2 Achievements
  • 2.2.6 Against semelfactives
  • 2.2.7 Interim summary
  • 2.3 Modeling 'Aktionsart' in the syntax
  • 2.3.1 Origins of verbal decomposition
  • 2.3.2 L-syntax: Hale & Keyser (1993, 2002)
  • 2.3.2.1 An overview of the model
  • 2.3.2.2 Critical assessment
  • 2.3.3 Borer's (2005'b') XS-model
  • 2.3.3.1 An overview of the model
  • 2.3.3.2 Critical assessment
  • 2.3.4 First phase syntax: Ramchand (2008)
  • 2.3.4.1 An overview of the model
  • 2.3.4.2 Critical assessment
  • 2.4 Conclusions
  • 3. Stative causatives
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Non-dynamic events: Fábregas & Marín (2017)
  • 3.2.1 An overview of Fábregas & Marín (2017)
  • 3.2.2 Review of Fábregas & Marín (2017)
  • 3.2.2.1 Eventivity tests?
  • 3.3 My proposal
  • 3.3.1 Defining traits of gobernar-verbs
  • 3.3.2 The syntax of 'gobernar'-verbs
  • 3.3.3 Deriving the properties of 'gobernar'-verbs
  • 3.3.4 Comparison with atomic approaches
  • 3.4 Against MAINTAIN: CAUSE and the temporal relation between events
  • 3.4.1 CAUSE and temporal sequencing: Neeleman & van de Koot (2012)
  • 3.4.2 Problems with Neeleman & van de Koot (2012)
  • 3.4.3 An alternative proposal
  • 3.5 Compatibility with other accounts of CAUSE and the external argument
  • 3.5.1 VoiceP ≠ vP
  • 3.5.2 Unaccusative CAUSE
  • 3.6 Conclusions
  • 4. Stative participles
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Adjectival passives in Spanish: A state of the art
  • 4.3 Comparing predicative and attributive participles
  • 4.3.1 Change-of-state structure?
  • 4.3.2 External arguments
  • 4.3.3 Passives
  • 4.3.4 Perfect semantics
  • 4.3.5 Summary of findings
  • 4.4 The proposal
  • 4.4.1 Estar-PPrts
  • 4.4.2 Bare-PPrts
  • 4.4.3 Perfective adjectives
  • 4.5 'By'-phrases and agent/event-oriented modifiers in APass. Beyond Spanish
  • 4.5.1 State-relevance
  • 4.5.2 Problems with the state-relevance approach
  • 4.5.3 Event-kinds and pseudo-incorporation
  • 4.5.4 Problems with the event-kinds approach
  • 4.5.5 Where are we?
  • 4.6 Crosslinguistic variation
  • 4.6.1 Permissive languages: An introduction
  • 4.6.2 Previous accounts
  • 4.6.2.1 Kratzer (2000)

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