The end of argument structure?

FRONT COVER......Page 1
SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS: THE END OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURE?......Page 4
COPYRIGHT PAGE......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 8
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 10
2. THE ISSUE......Page 11
3. THE QUESTIONS......Page 13
4. THE PAPERS......Page 15
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 18
REFERENCES......Page 19
CHAPTER 2 ON THE ADJECTIVAL COMPONENT OF CHANGE OF STATE VERBS IN SPANISH......Page 22
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 23
2. INTERPRETATIVE AND FORMAL PROPERTIES OF VARI CONSTRUCTIONS......Page 24
3.1. Lexical Decomposition as Syntax......Page 30
3.2. Head Movement......Page 32
3.3. VARI Constructions: A Hypothesis......Page 33
4. VARI CONSTRUCTIONS AS MULTIPLE COPY PRONUNCIATION OF DECOMPOSED VERBS......Page 35
4.1. Degree Modifiers in Change of State Verbs......Page 36
4.2. On the Unique Character of BIEN......Page 38
4.3. On Pronunciation of Multiple Copies......Page 42
4.4. Consequences for Break–Type Verbs......Page 45
5. CONCLUSIONS......Page 47
REFERENCES......Page 48
CHAPTER 3 ‘‘OBLIQUENESS’’ AS A COMPONENT OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURE IN AMHARIC......Page 52
2. BASICS OF AMHARIC ARGUMENT STRUCTURE......Page 53
3. HIERARCHY IN TRIADIC VERBS......Page 58
4.1. Two Kinds of Triadic Verbs......Page 60
4.2. Dyadic Verbs with Oblique Arguments......Page 61
4.3. Impersonal Monadic Verbs......Page 63
5. ‘‘OBLIQUE’’ ARGUMENTS AS NPs GOVERNED BY A NULL P......Page 64
5.1. Motivating the Core Proposal......Page 65
5.2. Developing the Core Proposal......Page 67
5.3. Applying the Core Proposal: Impersonal Verbs......Page 69
5.4. Special Issues with Dyadic Constructions......Page 70
6.1. Is Obliqueness Semantically Predictable?......Page 75
6.3. Is the Oblique–Direct Distinction Universal?......Page 77
6.4. Possible Implications for Projectionism versus Constructionism......Page 79
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 80
REFERENCES......Page 81
CHAPTER 4 THE ANTIPASSIVE AND ITS RELATION TO SCALAR STRUCTURE......Page 84
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 85
2. BACKGROUND ON SCALES......Page 88
3.1. Aspectual Differences......Page 90
3.2. Manner Verbs and Object Deletion......Page 95
3.3. Suffixless Antipassive......Page 96
3.4. Challenges to the Manner/Path Analysis......Page 100
4. THE INCHOATIVE......Page 106
5. ADDING ARGUMENTS IN THE ANTIPASSIVE......Page 107
6. CONCLUSION......Page 109
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 110
REFERENCES......Page 111
CHAPTER 5 SOME STRUCTURAL ANALOGIES BETWEEN EXISTENTIAL INTERPRETATION AND TELICITY......Page 114
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 115
2.2. Structure of Objects......Page 116
3.1. Event Composition......Page 120
3.2. Information Structure......Page 121
3.3. Event Composition or Information Structure?......Page 122
4.1. Composing the VP......Page 128
4.2. Voice in Events and States......Page 130
5. CONCLUSION......Page 135
REFERENCES......Page 136
CHAPTER 6 EXTERNAL ARGUMENT-INTRODUCING HEADS: VOICE AND APPL......Page 140
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 141
1.2. Organization of the chapter......Page 143
2.1. No agent-introducing heads in the complements of causatives......Page 144
2.2. ApplP can be the complement of causatives......Page 145
2.3. Korean morphological causatives as applicative-selecting causatives......Page 148
2.4. Semantics of Appl and Voice......Page 149
3. VOICE AND APPL ARE SYNTACTICALLY DIFFERENT......Page 150
3.1. English experiencer have......Page 151
3.2. Morphological evidence to peripheral Appl......Page 153
4. VOICE AND APPL ARE NOT FLAVORS OF ONE ANOTHER......Page 156
5. CONSEQUENCES......Page 159
6. CONCLUSION......Page 160
REFERENCES......Page 161
CHAPTER 7 TOWARD THE END OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURE......Page 164
2. ARGUMENTS AGAINST LEXICAL ADICITIES......Page 165
2.1. Davidsonian versus Neo-Davidsonian Representations......Page 167
2.2. Severing the Agent......Page 168
2.3. Focus and Full Thematic Separation......Page 175
2.4. Variable Verbal Adicities......Page 176
3. IDIOMS AND THEMES......Page 181
4. CHALLENGES FOR THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE......Page 186
5. CONCLUSION......Page 188
REFERENCES......Page 189
CHAPTER 8 A NOTE ON APPLICATIVES......Page 194
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 195
2. HIGH AND LOW APPLICATIVES......Page 196
3.1. Applicative Meanings and Structures of Ditransitive Sentences......Page 198
3.2. Possessor Dative Construction, Unergative Verbs, and Static Verbs......Page 200
3.3. Exceptions......Page 201
4.1. Prepositional Dative Construction in Slovenian......Page 204
4.2. Word Order and the High and Low Applicative Readings......Page 206
5.1. A Verb-Sensitive Approach to Dative Alternation......Page 209
5.2. A Possible Solution......Page 213
6. OTHER SOUTH SLAVIC LANGUAGES......Page 214
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 215
REFERENCES......Page 216
CHAPTER 9 THE MANNER/RESULT COMPLEMENTARITY REVISITED: A SYNTACTIC APPROACH......Page 218
1. THE MANNER/RESULT COMPLEMENTARITY......Page 219
2. A SYNTACTIC APPROACH TO THE MANNER/RESULT COMPLEMENTARITY......Page 220
3. THE VERB CLIMB AND THE MANNER/RESULT COMPLEMENTARITY......Page 226
4. CONCLUSIONS......Page 232
REFERENCES......Page 234
CHAPTER 10 SYNCRETISM AS PF-REPAIR: THE CASE OF SE-INSERTION IN SPANISH......Page 238
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 239
2. THE DISTRIBUTION OF SE CONSTRUCTIONS IN SPANISH......Page 241
3. SOME ASSUMPTIONS: FEATURE INHERITANCE AND SUBCATEGORIZATION......Page 246
4. THE SYNTAX OF SE CONSTRUCTIONS......Page 249
5. A PHASE-BASED APPROACH TO CL-INSERTION......Page 253
6. CONCLUSION......Page 264
REFERENCES......Page 266
CHAPTER 11 ARGUMENTS FROM THE ROOT VS. ARGUMENTS FROM THE SYNTAX......Page 270
2. BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO MALAGASY SYNTAX......Page 271
3. SYNTAX CREATES ARGUMENT STRUCTURE: PRELIMINARY SUPPORT......Page 273
3.1. v and Its Flavors in Malagasy......Page 274
3.2. Other Instantiations of v......Page 276
4. SYNTAX CREATES ARGUMENT STRUCTURE: A PROBLEM......Page 278
4.1. Other uses of (m)aha- (from Phillips, 1996)......Page 279
4.2. Telicity in Malagasy......Page 281
4.3. External Arguments Added by Syntax......Page 283
4.4. External Arguments: Argument Structure vs. Syntax......Page 284
5. ROOTS PROVIDE ARGUMENT STRUCTURE: PRELIMINARY REPORT......Page 287
6. CONCLUSION......Page 297
REFERENCES......Page 298
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 302