Argument structure and syntactic relations
Subtitle: a cross-linguistic perspective
By: edited by Maia Duguine, Susana Huidobro and Nerea Madariaga.
Contributors: Duguine, Maia.; Huidobro, Susana.; Madariaga, Nerea.
Series: Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today -- v. 158
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company; John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9789027255419; 9789027288134
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Argument structure and syntactic relations / Maia Duguine, Susana Huidobro and Nerea Madariaga; title: Part I. Semantic and syntactic properties of the event structure: Aspectual composition in causatives / Maria Babicheva and Mikhail Ivanov; title: Atelicity and anticausativization / Ekaterina Lyutikova and Sergei Tatevosov; title: Minimalist variability in the verb phrase / Jonathan E. MacDonald; title: On the L-Syntax of manner and causation / Jaume Mateu; title: Nominalization, event, aspect and argument structure: A syntactic approach / Petra Sleeman and Ana Maria Brito; title: Part II. A cartographic view on argument structure: The syntax of argument structure / Leonard H. Babby; title: Argument structure and quantifier scope / John Bowers; title: Part III. Syntactic heads involved in argument structure: An L-Syntax for adjuncts / Ángel J. Gallego; title: The derivation of dative alternations / Javier Ormazabal and Juan Romero; title: Advances in Functional Linguistics : Basque ditransitives / Beñat Oyharçabal; title: Applicative structure and Mandarin ditransitives / Waltraud Paul and John Whitman; title: Unintentionally out of control / Knut Tarald Taraldsen; title: Part IV. Argument structure in language acquisition: Zero time-arguments in French child language / Hamida Demirdache and Oana Lungu; title: Reevaluating the role of innate linking rules in the acquisition of verb argument structure: Evidence from child Hebrew / Sigal Uziel-Karl; title: Subject Index.