Overview

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 included in this volume explore current issues and re-assess generally accepted premises on the relationship between lexical meaning and the morphosyntax of sentences by confronting two competing approaches to this issue. 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. Amharic, Catalan, Chamorro, Chukchee, English, Georgian, Inuit, Korean, Malagasy, Slovenian and Spanish, are among the languages used to provide empirical evidence and illustrate the argumentation. Contributors are: Víctor Acedo-Matellan, Grant Armstrong, Mark Baker, David Basilico, María Cristina Cuervo, E. Matthew Husband, Kyumin Kim, Terje Lohndal, Tatjana Marvin, Jaume Mateu, Mercedes Pujalte, Yves Roberge, Andrés Saab, and Lisa Travis.

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Author:   María Cristina Cuervo ,  Yves Roberge ,  Jeffrey Runner ,  Jeff Runner
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Volume:   38
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.611kg
ISBN:  

9781780523767

ISBN 10:   1780523769
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   17 April 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 1 REMARKS ON ARGUMENT STRUCTURE María Cristina Cuervo and Yves Roberge 2 ON THE ADJECTIVAL COMPONENT OF CHANGE OF STATE VERBS IN SPANISH Grant Armstrong 3 ‘‘OBLIQUENESS’’ AS A COMPONENT OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURE IN AMHARIC Mark Baker 4 THE ANTIPASSIVE AND ITS RELATION TO SCALAR STRUCTURE David Basilico 5 SOME STRUCTURAL ANALOGIES BETWEEN EXISTENTIAL INTERPRETATION AND TELICITY E. Matthew Husband 6 EXTERNAL ARGUMENT-INTRODUCING HEADS: VOICE AND APPL Kyumin Kim 7 TOWARD THE END OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURE Terje Lohndal 8 A NOTE ON APPLICATIVES Tatjana Marvin 9 THE MANNER/RESULT COMPLEMENTARITY REVISITED: A SYNTACTIC APPROACH Jaume Mateu and Víctor Acedo-Matellan 10 SYNCRETISM AS PF-REPAIR: THE CASE OF SE-INSERTION IN SPANISH Mercedes Pujalte and Andrés Saab 11 ARGUMENTS FROM THE ROOT VS. ARGUMENTS FROM THE SYNTAX Lisa Travis SUBJECT INDEX

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