Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations

A cross-linguistic perspective

Editors

Maia Duguine

| University of the Basque Country & Université de Nantes

Susana Huidobro

| Stony Brook University & University of the Basque Country

Nerea Madariaga

| University of the Basque Country

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The topic of this collection is argument structure. The fourteen chapters in this book are divided into four parts: Semantic and Syntactic Properties of Event Structure; A Cartographic View on Argument Structure; Syntactic Heads Involved in Argument Structure; and Argument Structure in Language Acquisition. Rigorous theoretical analyses are combined with empirical work on specific aspects of argument structure. The book brings together authors working in different linguistic fields (semantics, syntax, and language acquisition), who explore new findings as well as more established data, but then from new theoretical perspectives. The contributions propose cartographic views of argument structure, as opposed to minimalistic proposals of a binary template model for argument structure, in order to optimally account for various syntactic and semantic facts, as well as data derived from wider cross-linguistic perspectives.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 158] 2010. vi, 348 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.158

Table of Contents

Argument structure and syntactic relations Maia Duguine, Susana Huidobro and Nerea Madariaga	1–10
Part 1. Semantic and syntactic properties of the event structure
Aspectual composition in causatives Maria Babicheva and Mikhail Ivanov	13–34
Atelicity and anticausativization Ekaterina Lyutikova and Sergei Tatevosov	35–68
Minimalist variability in the verb phrase Jonathan E. MacDonald	69–88
On the l-syntax of manner and causation Jaume Mateu	89–112
Nominalization, event, aspect and argument structure: A syntactic approach Petra Sleeman and Ana Maria Brito	113–130
Part 2. A global view on argument structure
The syntax of argument structure Leonard H. Babby	133–150
Argument structure and quantifier scope John Bowers	151–180
Part 3. Syntactic heads involved in argument structure
An l-syntax for adjuncts Ángel J. Gallego	183–202
The derivation of dative alternations Javier Ormazabal and Juan Romero	203–232
Basque ditransitives Beñat Oyharçabal	233–260
Applicative structure and Mandarin ditransitives Waltraud Paul and John Whitman	261–282
Unintentionally out of control Knut Tarald Taraldsen	283–302
Part 4. Argument structure in language acquisition
Zero time-arguments in French child language Hamida Demirdache and Oana Lungu	305–324
Reevaluating the role of innate linking rules in the acquisition of verb argument structure: Evidence from child Hebrew Sigal Uziel-Karl	325–344
Name and subject index	345–348

“Argument structure plays a central role in the articulation of syntax. Yet whether this contribution is primordial or derivative, derivational or representational, minimalist or cartographic, is entirely up for grabs. This is what makes a book like the present one equivalent to a murder thriller: one cannot finish one chapter without wanting to read the next. While the solution to the underlying mystery remains as open as it ever was, the clues offered here seem just impossible to ignore.”

Juan Uriagereka, University of Maryland

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Cited by other publications

Bachrach, Asaf, Isabelle Roy & Linnaea Stockall

2014. In Structuring the Argument [Language Faculty and Beyond, 10], ► pp. 1 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Syntax

Generative linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Semantics

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2010010771