Stative Inquiries
Causes, results, experiences, and locations
1st Edition
Published on 24. November 2020
272 pages
978-90-272-6051-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 predicates 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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Content
- 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)
- 4.6.2.2 Alexiadou et al. (2015)
- 4.6.2.3 Problems with Kratzer (2000)
- 4.6.2.4 Problems with Alexiadou et al. (2015)
- 4.6.3 An alternative account
- 4.6.3.1 Option 1: Parametrization of Adj (to be discarded)
- 4.6.3.2 Option 2: StatP and AdjP
- 4.7 Towards a unified theory of participles
- 4.8 Conclusions
- 5. Stative psychological and locative verbs
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Psychological verbs: State of the art
- 5.2.1 Experiencers and the linking problem
- 5.2.2 Psych effects
- 5.3 Psychological and locative verbs
- 5.3.1 Spanish psych verbs and their effects
- 5.3.1.1 Stative OEPVs
- 5.3.1.2 Psych effects
- 5.3.2 Locative verbs and their 'psych' effects
- 5.3.2.1 Spanish locative verbs
- 5.3.2.2 Psych effects with locative verbs in other languages
- 5.3.2.3 Interim summary
- 5.4 The analysis
- 5.4.1 A PP for experiencer objects: Landau (2010)
- 5.4.2 Unifying psych and locative verbs
- 5.4.3 Stative psych and locative verbs are not causative
- 5.4.4 Stative psych and locative verbs are unaccusative
- 5.4.5 The common thematic interpretation of Experiencers and Grounds
- 5.4.6 Interim conclusions
- 5.5 Agentivity?
- 5.5.1 The received view on agentivity
- 5.5.2 Agentive stative locative verbs
- 5.5.3 Agentivity and psych verbs
- 5.5.3.1 The classification in Marín (2011)
- 5.5.3.2 Agentivity and psych effects in OEPVs
- 5.5.4 Agentivity as teleological capability: Folli & Harley (2008)
- 5.6 Conclusions
- 6. Conclusions
- 6.1 Summary of findings
- 6.2 Main contributions
- 6.3 Future work
- Bibliography
- Index
