Argument Structure

Name: Argument Structure
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Eric J. Reuland Tanmoy Bhattacharya Giorgos Spathas(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen am 28. November 2007

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Argument Structure
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Preface
List of contributors
Introduction
References
Do verbs have argument structure?
1. Background and aims
2. Frames
3. Made-up verbs
4. The verb's flexibility
5. A brief note on the role of lexical semantics in syntactic theory
References
Projecting argument structure
1. Introduction
2. Background
2.1 Full Interpretation
3. Contact verbs
3.1 Contact as change
3.2 Contact activities
3.3 Alternating contact verbs
4. Conclusion
References
The argument structure of the dative construction
1. The dative construction and its alternates
2. Dravidian has no adjective
3. The dative construction in English
4. The possessive construction in English and Hungarian
5. A Lexical Relational Structure (LRS) for Experiencer and Possessor theta roles
6. The genesis of adjectives
References
Syntactic categories and lexical argument structure
1. Syntactic categories and argument structure
2. Case and the category P
3. Postpositions and adjectives in Kannada
4. The licensing of imperfect and perfect participles
5. Dative experiencer predicates as arguments of nouns
References
Adpositions, particles and the arguments they introduce
1. Introduction
2. P as a universal category
2.1 Adposition-like words crosslinguistically
2.2 Identifying P in different languages
2.2.1 English
2.2.2 Chinese
2.2.3 Northern Sámi
2.3 Cross-linguistic generalizations
3. Figure and Ground
3.1 Adposition and Ground
3.2 Particles
3.2.1 Particle and category
3.2.2 Particles and constituency
3.2.3 Particles and c-selection
3.2.4 Particles and s-selection
4. Non-spatial P
4.1 Metaphorical extensions of spatial P
4.2 Grammatical P
4.3 Case markers
5. Adpositions and verbs
5.1 Split-V and Split-P
5.2 Arguments of V
5.3 Ground in motion
5.4 Tense versus specifiers
6. Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
Argument structure and aspect
1. Introduction
2. The two imperfectives
3. Mohanan and Mohanan's analysis of aa constructions
3.1 The presupposition effect
4. Unaccusatives and eventive v
4.1 The contrast between the -ukayaa and the -unnu constructions
5. Manner adverbs: Further evidence for a focus effect
5.1 The position of adverbs
6. Summary
References
Argument features, clausal structure and the computation
1. Introduction
2. Background: Case is not a driving force - Person and EPP are
3. The structural cases are interpretable
4. Grammar is event-speech matching
4.1 Clausal architecture I: background
4.2 Clausal architecture II: extensions
4.3 Evidence: the mysterious First Position Constraint
5. Logophoric matching and speech event binding: some initial observations
6. Conclusion
References
On theta role assignment by feature checking
1. Thematic roles in minimalist theory: a problem?
2. Fanselow's (2001) arguments against scrambling of argument DPs
2.1 Floating quantifiers
2.2 Parasitic gaps
2.3 Freezing effects
2.4 Wh- phrases in situ
2.5 Reconstruction
2.6 Quantifier scope
3. The alternative proposal: the head F that attracts an object
4. Scrambling and focus: Kidwai (2000)
5. "Theta feature" checking and Attract: Manzini and Roussou (2000)
6. The analysis of theta roles as feature bundles
7. "Theta features" and thematic roles
7.1 General s-selection considerations
7.2 Lexical selection of compounds
7.3 The Unaccusative Alternation
7.4 Motivation for chain formation
7.5 Causatives and theta roles
8. Conclusion
References
Argument prominence and the nature of superiority violations
1. Introduction
2. Wh patterns in Bangla/Bengali
3. What & who patterns and Superiority in English
3.1 Animacy distinctions among wh-phrases
3.2 Thematic relations and empathetic centre of interest
3.3 Prosodic factors
3.4 Referential familiarity of expected answers to wh-questions
4. Bangla sluicing revisited
5. The status of Superiority, and argument prominence
References
Look across
1. Introduction
2. Blocking and its discontents
3. Sarcastic causatives
4. Look across and sarcastic passives
References
Author index
Subject index
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