Verbal Prepositions and Argument Structure

Name: Verbal Prepositions and Argument Structure | Path, place and possession in Norwegian
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Path, place and possession in Norwegian

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 10. April 2008

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Verbal Prepositions and Argument Structure
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Setting the scene
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The P chameleon
1.3 The interface between argument structure and syntax
1.3.1 Lexicalism vs. constructionism
1.3.2 Ramchand's First phase syntax
1.3.3 The argument structure of adpositional phrases
1.4 Main findings of the book
Chapter 2. Prepositions
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Locative prepositional phrases and verbs of motion
2.2.1 Types of verbs and interpretations of the PP
2.2.2 Goal of motion interpretations: Thomas (2001), Folli & Ramchand (2002)
2.3 Diagnostics
2.3.1 Temporal adverbials
2.3.2 VP constituency tests
2.3.3 Ordering of adverbials
2.3.4 PP-topicalization and clefting
2.3.5 Distribution of anaphora
2.3.6 Accent placement/prosody
2.3.7 Summary of the findings
2.4 Expressions of location
2.4.1 A note on external vs. internal location
2.5 Directional expressions
2.5.1 Simplex and complex directional PPs
2.5.2 Til
2.5.3 Internally complex directional PPs
2.6 Analysis
2.6.1 Prepositions, argument structure and interpretations
2.6.2 Ambiguous PPs and locative and directional interpretations
2.6.3 The directional reading
2.6.4 The locative reading
2.7 Unambiguously directional PPs
2.7.1 Simplex directional PPs
2.7.2 Internally complex directional PPs
2.7.3 Directional PPs as adjuncts
2.8 Summary
Chapter 3. Possession and the notion of affected participants
3.1 Overview and aims
3.2 Previous treatments of double object constructions
3.2.1 Oehrle(1976)
3.2.2 Marantz(1984)
3.2.3 Kayne(1984)
3.2.4 Baker(1988)
3.2.5 Larson (1988, 1990) and Jackendoff(1990)
3.2.6 Hellan(1991)
3.2.7 Åfarli (1992)
3.2.8 Den Dikken(1995)
3.2.9 Pesetsky(1995)
3.2.10 Harley(2002)
3.3 Norwegian: Verb types and interpretations
3.3.1 What types of verbs
3.3.2 The interpretation of the added participant
3.3.3 Analysis
3.3.4 Benefactive double object constructions
3.3.5 Deriving the structure
3.3.6 Summary of the ndings for Norwegian
3.4 German
3.4.1 Distribution of bene ciaries and male ciaries
3.4.2 Analysis
3.4.3 Creation verbs
3.4.4 Transitive verbs which do not refer to creation events
3.4.5 Unaccusative verbs and dative participants
3.5 Summary and remaining puzzles
Chapter 4. Abstract places and results
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Til and lexically speci ed endpoints
4.3 Intransitive predicates and til
4.3.1 What are the properties of semelfactives
4.3.2 What are the properties of degree achievements
4.4 Data: Semelfactives and degree achievements
4.4.1 Semelfactives with and without til
4.4.2 Degree achievements with and without til
4.4.3 Interim summary
4.5 Analysis
4.5.1 Semelfactives
4.5.2 Degree achievements
4.5.3 Summary
4.6 Transitive semelfactives
4.6.1 Interpretations with and without til
4.6.2 DP vs. PP, and properties of event participants
4.6.3 Analysis and structures: Transitive semelfactives
4.7 Summary
Chapter 5. Denouement
Bibliography
Index
The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

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