The Syntax of Aspect
Deriving Thematic and Aspectual Interpretation
Published on 26. May 2005
Book
Hardback
332 pages
978-0-19-928043-8 (ISBN)
Description
New work by internationally known scholars
- Considers a wide range of languages including English, Hindi/Urdu, French, Finnish, Navajo, Malagasy, Tagalog, Germanic, and Slavic
- Throws new light on language acquisition and universal grammar
- Can be used as a textbook for advanced courses on the nature of the lexicon and on the lexicon-syntax interface
Contents
- 1 From Lexical Roots to Syntax
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser: Aspect and the Syntax of Argument Structure
- 3 Heidi Harley: How do Verbs Get their Names? Denominal Verbs, Manner Incorporation and the Ontology of Verb Roots in English
- 4 Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport: Path Predicates
- 2 Event Structure and Feature Projections
- 5 Jacqueline Gueron: Tense, Person, and Transitivity
- 6 Miriam Butt and Gillian Ramchand: Complex Aspectual Structure in Hindi/Urdu
- 7 Edit Doron: The Aspect of Agency
- 8 Lisa Travis: Agents and Causes in Malagasy and Tagalog
- 9 Carlota S. Smith: Event Structure and Morphosyntax in Navajo
- 3 Lexical Restrictions on Syntax
- 10 Adele E. Goldberg: Constructions, Lexical Semantics and the Correspondence Principle: Accounting for Generalizations and Subregularities in the Realization of Arguments
- 11 Anita Mittwoch: Unspecified Arguments in Episodic and Habitual Sentences
- 12 Stephen Wechsler: Resultatives under the 'Event-Argument Homomorphism' Model of Telicity
- 13 Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin: Change of State Verbs: Implications for Theories of Argument Projection
- References
- Considers a wide range of languages including English, Hindi/Urdu, French, Finnish, Navajo, Malagasy, Tagalog, Germanic, and Slavic
- Throws new light on language acquisition and universal grammar
- Can be used as a textbook for advanced courses on the nature of the lexicon and on the lexicon-syntax interface
Contents
- 1 From Lexical Roots to Syntax
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser: Aspect and the Syntax of Argument Structure
- 3 Heidi Harley: How do Verbs Get their Names? Denominal Verbs, Manner Incorporation and the Ontology of Verb Roots in English
- 4 Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport: Path Predicates
- 2 Event Structure and Feature Projections
- 5 Jacqueline Gueron: Tense, Person, and Transitivity
- 6 Miriam Butt and Gillian Ramchand: Complex Aspectual Structure in Hindi/Urdu
- 7 Edit Doron: The Aspect of Agency
- 8 Lisa Travis: Agents and Causes in Malagasy and Tagalog
- 9 Carlota S. Smith: Event Structure and Morphosyntax in Navajo
- 3 Lexical Restrictions on Syntax
- 10 Adele E. Goldberg: Constructions, Lexical Semantics and the Correspondence Principle: Accounting for Generalizations and Subregularities in the Realization of Arguments
- 11 Anita Mittwoch: Unspecified Arguments in Episodic and Habitual Sentences
- 12 Stephen Wechsler: Resultatives under the 'Event-Argument Homomorphism' Model of Telicity
- 13 Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin: Change of State Verbs: Implications for Theories of Argument Projection
- References
Reviews / Votes
an important contribution to the literature on aspect, argument mapping and interpretation, and the interface between the lexicon and the syntax ... this volume offers important insights into the structural and semantic underpinnings of the temporal and thematic properties of predicates, which take into account and are founded on a wealth of data from a range of languages. * Karen Zagona, Journal of Linguistics *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Theoretical linguists, particularly syntacticians and lexical semanticists
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
648 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-928043-8 (9780199280438)
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Deriving Thematic and Aspectual Interpretation
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Persons
Nomi Erteschik-Shir is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Her publications include The Dynamics of Focus Structure (1997). She is writing The Syntax-Discourse Interface: Information Structure (forthcoming in Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology).
Tova Rapoport is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. She is currently working on a theory of syntax-driven interpretation, including a book with Nomi Erteschik-Shir on the lexicon-syntax interface, The Atoms of Meaning.
Tova Rapoport is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. She is currently working on a theory of syntax-driven interpretation, including a book with Nomi Erteschik-Shir on the lexicon-syntax interface, The Atoms of Meaning.
Content
1 FROM LEXICAL ROOTS TO SYNTAX ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Aspect and the Syntax of Argument Structure ; 3. How do Verbs Get their Names? Denominal Verbs, Manner Incorporation and the Ontology of Verb Roots in English ; 4. Path Predicates ; 2 EVENT STRUCTURE AND FEATURE PROJECTIONS ; 5. Tense, Person, and Transitivity ; 6. Complex Aspectual Structure in Hindi/Urdu ; 7. The Aspect of Agency ; 8. Agents and Causes in Malagasy and Tagalog ; 9. Event Structure and Morphosyntax in Navajo ; 3 LEXICAL RESTRICTIONS ON SYNTAX ; 10. Constructions, Lexical Semantics and the Correspondence Principle: Accounting for Generalizations and Subregularities in the Realization of Arguments ; 11. Unspecified Arguments in Episodic and Habitual Sentences ; 12. Resultatives under the 'Event-Argument Homomorphism' Model of Telicity ; 13. Change of State Verbs: Implications for Theories of Argument Projection ; References