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Author:   Nomi Erteschik-Shir (Ben-Gurion University) ,  Tova Rapoport (Ben-Gurion University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   10
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.509kg
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9780199280445

ISBN 10:   0199280444
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   26 May 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 From Lexical Roots to Syntax 1: Introduction 2: Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser: Aspect and the Syntax of Argument Structure 3: Heidi Harley: How do Verbs Get their Names? Denominal Verbs, Manner Incorporation and the Ontology of Verb Roots in English 4: Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport: Path Predicates 2 Event Structure and Feature Projections 5: Jacqueline Gueron: Tense, Person, and Transitivity 6: Miriam Butt and Gillian Ramchand: Complex Aspectual Structure in Hindi/Urdu 7: Edit Doron: The Aspect of Agency 8: Lisa Travis: Agents and Causes in Malagasy and Tagalog 9: Carlota S. Smith: Event Structure and Morphosyntax in Navajo 3 Lexical Restrictions on Syntax 10: Adele E. Goldberg: Constructions, Lexical Semantics and the Correspondence Principle: Accounting for Generalizations and Subregularities in the Realization of Arguments 11: Anita Mittwoch: Unspecified Arguments in Episodic and Habitual Sentences 12: Stephen Wechsler: Resultatives under the 'Event-Argument Homomorphism' Model of Telicity 13: Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin: Change of State Verbs: Implications for Theories of Argument Projection References

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important contribution to the literature on aspect, argument mapping and interpretation, and the interface between the lexicon and the syntax. Karen Zagona, Journal of Linguistics an important contribution to the literature on aspect, argument mapping and interpretation, and the interface between the lexicon and the syntax ... this volume offers important insights into the structural and semantic underpinnings of the temporal and thematic properties of predicates, which take into account and are founded on a wealth of data from a range of languages. Karen Zagona, Journal of Linguistics

important contribution to the literature on aspect, argument mapping and interpretation, and the interface between the lexicon and the syntax. Karen Zagona, Journal of Linguistics an important contribution to the literature on aspect, argument mapping and interpretation, and the interface between the lexicon and the syntax ... this volume offers important insights into the structural and semantic underpinnings of the temporal and thematic properties of predicates, which take into account and are founded on a wealth of data from a range of languages. Karen Zagona, Journal of Linguistics

Author Information

Nomi Erteschik-Shir is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Her publications include The Dynamics of Focus Structure (1997). She is writing The Syntax-Discourse Interface: Information Structure (forthcoming in Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology). Tova Rapoport is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. She is currently working on a theory of syntax-driven interpretation, including a book with Nomi Erteschik-Shir on the lexicon-syntax interface, The Atoms of Meaning.

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