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 | pp. 1–10

Part 1. Semantic and syntactic properties of the event structure

Aspectual composition in causatives

Maria Babicheva and Mikhail Ivanov | pp. 13–34

Atelicity and anticausativization

Ekaterina Lyutikova and Sergei Tatevosov | pp. 35–68

Minimalist variability in the verb phrase

Jonathan E. MacDonald | pp. 69–88

On the l-syntax of manner and causation

Jaume Mateu | pp. 89–112

Nominalization, event, aspect and argument structure: A syntactic approach

Petra Sleeman and Ana Maria Brito | pp. 113–130

Part 2. A global view on argument structure

The syntax of argument structure

Leonard H. Babby | pp. 133–150

Argument structure and quantifier scope

John Bowers | pp. 151–180

Part 3. Syntactic heads involved in argument structure

An l-syntax for adjuncts

Ángel J. Gallego | pp. 183–202

The derivation of dative alternations

Javier Ormazabal and Juan Romero | pp. 203–232

Basque ditransitives

Beñat Oyharçabal | pp. 233–260

Applicative structure and Mandarin ditransitives

Waltraud Paul and John Whitman | pp. 261–282

Unintentionally out of control

Knut Tarald Taraldsen | pp. 283–302

Part 4. Argument structure in language acquisition

Zero time-arguments in French child language

Hamida Demirdache and Oana Lungu | pp. 305–324

Reevaluating the role of innate linking rules in the acquisition of verb argument structure: Evidence from child Hebrew

Sigal Uziel-Karl | pp. 325–344

Name and subject index | pp. 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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