Argument Structure (Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today)

Argument Structure......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
References......Page 18
1. Background and aims......Page 20
2. Frames......Page 22
3. Made-up verbs......Page 25
4. The verb’s flexibility......Page 27
5. A brief note on the role of lexical semantics in syntactic theory......Page 33
References......Page 34
1. Introduction......Page 36
2. Background......Page 37
2.1 Full Interpretation......Page 39
3. Contact verbs......Page 43
3.1 Contact as change......Page 44
3.2 Contact activities......Page 46
3.3 Alternating contact verbs......Page 49
4. Conclusion......Page 52
References......Page 53
1. The dative construction and its alternates......Page 56
2. Dravidian has no adjective......Page 58
3. The dative construction in English......Page 60
4. The possessive construction in English and Hungarian......Page 61
5. A Lexical Relational Structure (LRS) for Experiencer and Possessor theta roles......Page 62
6. The genesis of adjectives......Page 65
References......Page 67
1. Syntactic categories and argument structure......Page 68
2. Case and the category P......Page 69
3. Postpositions and adjectives in Kannada......Page 71
4. The licensing of imperfect and perfect participles......Page 73
5. Dative experiencer predicates as arguments of nouns......Page 78
References......Page 79
1. Introduction......Page 82
2. P as a universal category......Page 83
2.1 Adposition-like words crosslinguistically......Page 84
2.2.1 English......Page 86
2.2.2 Chinese......Page 88
2.2.3 Northern Sámi......Page 90
2.3 Cross-linguistic generalizations......Page 93
3.1 Adposition and Ground......Page 96
3.2.1 Particle and category......Page 99
3.2.2 Particles and constituency......Page 101
3.2.3 Particles and c-selection......Page 102
3.2.4 Particles and s-selection......Page 104
4.1 Metaphorical extensions of spatial P......Page 105
4.2 Grammatical P......Page 106
4.3 Case markers......Page 107
5.1 Split-V and Split-P......Page 109
5.2 Arguments of V......Page 112
5.3 Ground in motion......Page 114
5.4 Tense versus specifiers......Page 115
6. Conclusion......Page 116
References......Page 117
1. Introduction......Page 124
2. The two imperfectives......Page 125
3. Mohanan and Mohanan’s analysis of aa constructions......Page 128
3.1 The presupposition effect......Page 131
4. Unaccusatives and eventive v......Page 132
4.1 The contrast between the -ukayaa and the -unnu constructions......Page 134
5. Manner adverbs: Further evidence for a focus effect......Page 135
5.1 The position of adverbs......Page 136
6. Summary......Page 138
References......Page 139
1. Introduction......Page 140
2. Background: Case is not a driving force – Person and EPP are......Page 141
3. The structural cases are interpretable......Page 148
4.1 Clausal architecture I: background......Page 151
4.2 Clausal architecture II: extensions......Page 156
4.3 Evidence: the mysterious First Position Constraint......Page 159
5. Logophoric matching and speech event binding: some initial observations......Page 167
References......Page 173
On theta role assignment by feature checking......Page 178
1. Thematic roles in minimalist theory: a problem?......Page 179
2.1 Floating quantifiers......Page 180
2.3 Freezing effects......Page 181
2.4 Wh- phrases in situ......Page 182
2.6 Quantifier scope......Page 183
3. The alternative proposal: the head F that attracts an object......Page 184
5. “Theta feature” checking and Attract: Manzini and Roussou (2000)......Page 185
6. The analysis of theta roles as feature bundles......Page 186
7. “Theta features” and thematic roles......Page 188
7.3 The Unaccusative Alternation......Page 189
8. Conclusion......Page 190
References......Page 191
1. Introduction......Page 194
2. Wh patterns in Bangla/Bengali......Page 200
3. What > who patterns and Superiority in English......Page 208
3.1 Animacy distinctions among wh-phrases......Page 209
3.2 Thematic relations and empathetic centre of interest......Page 210
3.3 Prosodic factors......Page 216
3.4 Referential familiarity of expected answers to wh-questions......Page 219
4. Bangla sluicing revisited......Page 225
5. The status of Superiority, and argument prominence......Page 228
References......Page 230
1. Introduction......Page 232
2. Blocking and its discontents......Page 237
3. Sarcastic causatives......Page 244
4. Look across and sarcastic passives......Page 252
References......Page 255
Author index......Page 258
Subject index......Page 260
The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today......Page 263