Martha McGinnis
List of John Benjamins publications in which Martha McGinnis is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 1. The diverse argument structures of Georgian subject-experiencer predicates Theoretical Issues in the Languages of the Caucasus, Atlamaz, Ümit, Ömer Demirok and Balkız Öztürk (eds.), pp. 18–67 | Chapter
We propose an analysis of Georgian psych-verbs, identifying a surprising syntactic distinction between two classes of Subject-Experiencer (SubjExp) predicates. While prior work on psych-verbs identifies distinct argument structures associated with different sets of lexical verbs, we argue that… read more
2001 Variation in the phase structure of applicatives Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2001, Pica, Pierre (ed.), pp. 105–146 | Article
This paper argues that a substantial amount of the variation in the grammatical properties of applicative constructions arises from structural differences between two main types, identified by Pylkkänen (2000) as high and low applicatives. High applicatives take an NP specifier and a VP… read more