Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations
A cross-linguistic perspective
Editors
| University of the Basque Country & Université de Nantes
| Stony Brook University & University of the Basque Country
| University of the Basque Country
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
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Argument structure and syntactic relationsMaia Duguine, Susana Huidobro and Nerea Madariaga | pp. 1–10
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Part 1. Semantic and syntactic properties of the event structure
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Aspectual composition in causativesMaria Babicheva and Mikhail Ivanov | pp. 13–34
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Atelicity and anticausativizationEkaterina Lyutikova and Sergei Tatevosov | pp. 35–68
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Minimalist variability in the verb phraseJonathan E. MacDonald | pp. 69–88
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On the l-syntax of manner and causationJaume Mateu | pp. 89–112
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Nominalization, event, aspect and argument structure: A syntactic approachPetra Sleeman and Ana Maria Brito | pp. 113–130
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Part 2. A global view on argument structure
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The syntax of argument structureLeonard H. Babby | pp. 133–150
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Argument structure and quantifier scopeJohn Bowers | pp. 151–180
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Part 3. Syntactic heads involved in argument structure
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An l-syntax for adjunctsÁngel J. Gallego | pp. 183–202
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The derivation of dative alternationsJavier Ormazabal and Juan Romero | pp. 203–232
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Basque ditransitivesBeñat Oyharçabal | pp. 233–260
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Applicative structure and Mandarin ditransitivesWaltraud Paul and John Whitman | pp. 261–282
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Unintentionally out of controlKnut Tarald Taraldsen | pp. 283–302
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Part 4. Argument structure in language acquisition
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Zero time-arguments in French child languageHamida Demirdache and Oana Lungu | pp. 305–324
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Reevaluating the role of innate linking rules in the acquisition of verb argument structure: Evidence from child HebrewSigal Uziel-Karl | pp. 325–344
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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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Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General