Overview

The topic of this collection is argument structure. The fourteen chapters in this book are divided into four parts: Semantic and Syntactic Properties of Event Structure; A Cartographic View on Argument Structure; Syntactic Heads Involved in Argument Structure; and Argument Structure in Language Acquisition. Rigorous theoretical analyses are combined with empirical work on specific aspects of argument structure. The book brings together authors working in different linguistic fields (semantics, syntax, and language acquisition), who explore new findings as well as more established data, but then from new theoretical perspectives. The contributions propose cartographic views of argument structure, as opposed to minimalistic proposals of a binary template model for argument structure, in order to optimally account for various syntactic and semantic facts, as well as data derived from wider cross-linguistic perspectives.

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Author:   Maia Duguine (University of the Basque Country & Université de Nantes) ,  Susana Huidobro (Stony Brook University & University of the Basque Country) ,  Nerea Madariaga (University of the Basque Country)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   158
Weight:   0.785kg
ISBN:  

9789027255419

ISBN 10:   9027255415
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   14 July 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Argument structure and syntactic relations (by Duguine, Maia); 2. Part 1. Semantic and syntactic properties of the event structure; 3. Aspectual composition in causatives (by Babicheva, Maria); 4. Atelicity and anticausativization (by Lyutikova, Ekaterina); 5. Minimalist variability in the verb phrase (by MacDonald, Jonathan E.); 6. On the l-syntax of manner and causation (by Mateu, Jaume); 7. Nominalization, event, aspect and argument structure: A syntactic approach (by Sleeman, Petra); 8. Part 2. A global view on argument structure; 9. The syntax of argument structure (by Babby, Leonard H.); 10. Argument structure and quantifier scope (by Bowers, John); 11. Part 3. Syntactic heads involved in argument structure; 12. An l-syntax for adjuncts (by Gallego, Angel J.); 13. The derivation of dative alternations (by Ormazabal, Javier); 14. Basque ditransitives (by Oyharcabal, Benat); 15. Applicative structure and Mandarin ditransitives (by Paul, Waltraud); 16. Unintentionally out of control (by Taraldsen, Knut Tarald); 17. Part 4. Argument structure in language acquisition; 18. Zero time-arguments in French child language (by Demirdache, Hamida); 19. Reevaluating the role of innate linking rules in the acquisition of verb argument structure: Evidence from child Hebrew (by Uziel-Karl, Sigal); 20. Name and subject index

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Argument structure plays a central role in the articulation of syntax. Yet whether this contribution is primordial or derivative, derivational or representational, minimalist or cartographic, is entirely up for grabs. This is what makes a book like the present one equivalent to a murder thriller: one cannot finish one chapter without wanting to read the next. While the solution to the underlying mystery remains as open as it ever was, the clues offered here seem just impossible to ignore. -- Juan Uriagereka, University of Maryland

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