Linking the geometry of argument structure
Linking – how semantic arguments map to the syntax – is one of the challenges for theories of the syntax-semantics interface. In this new approach, Janet Randall explores the hypothesis that the positions of syntactic arguments are strictly determined by lexical argument geometry. Yielding novel – i...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht ; London :
Springer Science
c2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2010. |
| Colección: | Studies in natural language and linguistic theory ;
v. 74. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009456649106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A Geometric Theory of Linking
- Conceptual Structure
- Eliminating the Direct/Indirect Internal Argument Distinction
- Explaining Linking Regularities
- Syntactically Unexpressed Arguments, Incorporation, and Adjuncts
- The Linking of Resultative Verbs: Clausal Fusion
- The Prohibition Against Double Fusion
- More Linking Results Across the Lexicon
- Causative Verbs with PLACE Arguments
- Unaccusatives: A Cluster of Verb Classes
- Complex Causative Verbs
- Other Verb Classes, Other Issues, and Conclusions.
