The end of argument structure?
By: edited by María Cristina Cuervo, Yves Roberge
Series: Syntax and semantics -- v. 38; Syntax and semantics -- v. 38.
Publisher: Emerald
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bingley, U.K
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781780523774
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines; Linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation; Comparative and general Grammar; Syntax; Grammar, syntax; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax; Linguistics / Syntax*; Semantics
Description: The papers included in this volume explore current issues and re-assess generally accepted premises on the relationship between lexical meaning and the morphosyntax of sentences. A central question in the study of language concerns the mechanisms by which the participants in an event described by a sentence come to occupy their positions and acquire their interpretation. The papers confront two competing approaches to this question. A long-standing approach is based on the assumption that it is the lexical meaning of a verb that determines, albeit indirectly, the basic properties of sentence structure at the level of verbal meaning, including asymmetric relations, thematic roles, case, and agreement. An alternative approach claims that, to a large extent, the syntax itself establishes possible verbal meanings on the basis of the legitimate relations that can exist between syntactic heads, complements, and specifiers.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Remarks on argument structure / María Cristina Cuervo, Yves Roberge; title: 2. On the adjectival component of change of state verbs in Spanish / Grant Armstrong; title: 3. "Obliqueness" as a component of argument structure in Amharic / Mark Baker; title: 4. The antipassive and its relation to scalar structure / David Basilico; title: 5. Some structural analogies between existential interpretation and telicity / E. Matthew Husband; title: 6. External argument-introducing heads : voice and appl / Kyumin Kim; title: 7. Toward the end of argument structure / Terje Lohndal; title: 8. A note on applicatives / Tatjana Marvin; title: 9. The manner/result complementarity revisited : a syntactic approach / Jaume Mateu, Víctor Acedo-Matellán; title: 10. Syncretism as PF-repair : the case of SE / Mercedes Pujalte, Andrés Saab; title: 11. Arguments from the root vs. arguments from the syntax / Lisa Travis.