This collection of new work focuses on issues at the lexicon-syntax interface. It presents innovative analyses of theoretical issues of aspectual interpretation in a variety of languages. The authors address questions such as to what extent can variation in verbal meaning, and thematic information can be determined in the syntax, and how the interpretation of various syntactic constructions is derived, once lexical information is minimized. A subset of the articles develops theories that take as their starting point the lexical-syntactic framework of the late Ken Hale and Jay Keyser, prominent among which is their own chapter.
Author(s): Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Tova Rapoport
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 330
Contents......Page 8
General Preface......Page 10
Preface......Page 11
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Overview of the Volume......Page 16
1 Introduction......Page 22
Part I: From Lexical Roots to Syntax......Page 30
2 Aspect and the Syntax of Argument Structure......Page 32
3 How Do Verbs Get Their Names? Denominal Verbs, Manner Incorporation, and the Ontology of Verb Roots in English......Page 63
4 Path Predicates......Page 86
Part II: Event Structure and Feature Projections......Page 108
5 Tense, Person, and Transitivity......Page 110
6 Complex Aspectual Structure in Hindi/Urdu......Page 138
7 The Aspect of Agency......Page 175
8 Agents and Causes in Malagasy and Tagalog......Page 195
9 Event Structure and Morphosyntax in Navajo......Page 211
Part III: Lexical Restrictions on Syntax......Page 234
10 Constructions, Lexical Semantics, and the Correspondence Principle: Accounting for Generalizations and Subregularities in the Realization of Arguments......Page 236
11 Unspecified Arguments in Episodic and Habitual Sentences......Page 258
12 Resultatives under the ‘Event–Argument Homomorphism’ Model of Telicity......Page 276
13 Change-of-State Verbs: Implications for Theories of Argument Projection......Page 295
References......Page 308
G......Page 324
P......Page 325
Z......Page 326
D......Page 327
M......Page 328
S......Page 329
Z......Page 330
