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: February 12, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780199257652
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.