The syntax of aspect
Subtitle: deriving thematic and aspectual interpretation
By: edited by Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport.
Contributors: Erteschik-Shir, Nomi.; Rapoport, Tova R.
Series: Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ;; 10
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Aspect.; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.; Lexicology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-302) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Aspect and the syntax of argument structure / Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser; title: How do verbs get their names? Demonimal verbs, manner incorporation, and the ontology of verb roots in English / Heidi Harley; title: Path predicates / Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport; title: Tense, person, and transitivity / Jacqueline Guéron; title: Complex aspectual structure in Hindi/Urdu / Miriam Butt and Gillian Ramchand; title: The aspect of agency / Edit Doron; title: Agents and causes in Malagasy and Tagalog / Lisa Travis; title: Event structure and morphosyntax in Navajo / Carlota S. Smith; title: Constructions, lexical semantics, and the correspondence principle : accounting for generalizations and subregularities in the realization of arguments / Adele E. Goldberg; title: Unspecified arguments in episodic and habitual sentences / Anita Mittwoch; title: Resultatives under the event argument homomorphism model of telicity / Stephen Wechsler; title: Change of state verbs : implications for theories of argument projection / Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin.