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Bachrach, Asaf, Isabelle Roy and Linnaea Stockall, eds. 2014. Structuring the Argument. Multidisciplinary research on verb argument structure.
Multidisciplinary research on verb argument structure. (Language Faculty and Beyond 10). John Benjamins. vii, 205 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
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While the argument structure of verbs has long been a central issue in linguistic research of all varieties and continues to be a vexed area of research across a wide range of theoretical and empirical approaches, the interdisciplinary perspective and dialogue remain largely underexplored. This collection stems from an interest to find and explore practical, tangible points of intersection between theoretical linguists, psycholinguists and neurolinguists working on problems related to the representation and processing of verbs and their associated thematic structure. The book is organized around three core themes, (i) the basic building blocks of verbal representations and modes of construction of the verb-argument complex, (ii) non-canonical argument structure realization, with a particular focus on object-experiencer psych verbs, and (iii) the promises and challenges of neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic investigation into argument structure and the prospects for the future of interdisciplinary research on verb argument structure.