The Unaccusativity Puzzle
Subtitle: Explorations of the Syntax-Lexicon Interface (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 5)
Contributors: Artemis Alexiadou (Editor); Elena Anagnostopoulou (Editor); Martin Everaert (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 11, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780199257645
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Semantics (meaning); Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Grammar; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Linguistics; Grammar, Comparative and gener; Grammar, Comparative and general; Lexicology; Syntax; Verb
First sentence: Since its original formulation, due in its current form to Perlmutter (1978), the unaccusative hypothesis has played a major role in linguistic theory, as it raises fundamental questions on the nature of grammatical relations and on the syntax-semantics map.