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OverviewThe phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. The Unaccusative Hypothesis, first formulated in 1978, claimed that there are two classes of intransitive verbs, the unaccusative (Jill arrived) and the unergative or agentive (Jill sings). The hypothesis has provided a rich context for debating whether syntactic behaviour is semantically or lexically determined, the consequence of syntactic context, or a combination of these factors. No consensus has been reached. This book combines contemporary approaches to the subject with several papers that have achieved a significant status even though formally unpublished. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Artemis Alexiadou (, University of Potsdam) , Elena Anagnostopoulou (, University of Crete) , Martin Everaert (, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Volume: 5 Dimensions: Width: 10.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 20.40cm Weight: 0.664kg ISBN: 9780199257645ISBN 10: 0199257647 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 08 January 2004 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsSeries editors' preface Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou and Martin Everaert: Introduction 1: Gennaro Chierchia: A Semantics for unaccusatives and its syntactic consequences 2: Angeliek van Hout: Unaccusativity as telicity checking 3: Hans Bennis: Unergative adjectives and psych-verbs 4: Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou: Voice morphology in the causative-inchoative alternation: evidence for a non unified structural analysis of unaccusatives 5: David Embick: Unaccusative syntax and verbal alternations 6: Tanya Reinhart and Tal Siloni: Against an unaccusative analysis of reflexives 7: Markus Steinbach: Unaccusatives and anticausatives in German 8: Maaike Schoorlemmer: Syntactic unaccusativity in Russian 9: Antonella Sorace: Gradience at the lexicon-syntax interface: evidence from auxiliary selection 10: Tonjes Veenstra: Unaccusativity in Saramaccan: the syntax of resultatives 11: Hagit Borer: The grammar machine 12: Janet Randall, Angeliek van Hout, Juergen Weissenborn and Harald Baayen: Acquiring unaccusativity: a cross-linguistic look IndexReviews...a very valuable volume on the topic of unaccusativity. The editors have introduced expertly the volume, the phenomenon, and its analyses. * Werner Abraham Language * ...a very valuable volume on the topic of unaccusativity. The editors have introduced expertly the volume, the phenomenon, and its analyses. Werner Abraham Language Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |