Linking : the geometry of argument structure / by Janet H. Randall.
Linking - how semantic arguments map to the syntax - is one of the challenges for theories of the syntax-semantics interface. This title explores the hypothesis that the positions of syntactic arguments are strictly determined by lexical argument geometry. It provides a simple and consistent account...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
[2010]
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| Series: | Studies in natural language and linguistic theory ;
v. 74. |
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
Table of Contents:
- 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.