Overview

The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. The Unaccusative Hypothesis, first formulated in 1978, claimed that there are two classes of intransitive verbs, the unaccusative (Jill arrived) and the unergative or agentive (Jill sings). The hypothesis has provided a rich context for debating whether syntactic behaviour is semantically or lexically determined, the consequence of syntactic context, or a combination of these factors. No consensus has been reached. This book combines new approaches to the subject with several papers that have achieved a significant status even though formally unpublished. Among the issues the authors address are: the determination of the unaccusative class of verbs, the problem of unaccusativity diagnostics, the implications of special morphology for the structural representation of unaccusatives and the status of the external thematic role, the properties guiding the unergative versus unaccusative distinction in acquisition, and the properties of second-language lexicon.

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Author:   Artemis Alexiadou (, University of Potsdam) ,  Elena Anagnostopoulou (, University of Crete) ,  Martin Everaert (, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   5
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.587kg
ISBN:  

9780199257652

ISBN 10:   0199257655
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   08 January 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Series editors' preface Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou and Martin Everaert: Introduction 1: Gennaro Chierchia: A Semantics for unaccusatives and its syntactic consequences 2: Angeliek van Hout: Unaccusativity as telicity checking 3: Hans Bennis: Unergative adjectives and psych-verbs 4: Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou: Voice morphology in the causative-inchoative alternation: evidence for a non unified structural analysis of unaccusatives 5: David Embick: Unaccusative syntax and verbal alternations 6: Tanya Reinhart and Tal Siloni: Against an unaccusative analysis of reflexives 7: Markus Steinbach: Unaccusatives and anticausatives in German 8: Maaike Schoorlemmer: Syntactic unaccusativity in Russian 9: Antonella Sorace: Gradience at the lexicon-syntax interface: evidence from auxiliary selection 10: Tonjes Veenstra: Unaccusativity in Saramaccan: the syntax of resultatives 11: Hagit Borer: The grammar machine 12: Janet Randall, Angeliek van Hout, Juergen Weissenborn and Harald Baayen: Acquiring unaccusativity: a cross-linguistic look Index

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...a very valuable volume on the topic of unaccusativity. The editors have introduced expertly the volume, the phenomenon, and its analyses. Werner Abraham Language

...a very valuable volume on the topic of unaccusativity. The editors have introduced expertly the volume, the phenomenon, and its analyses. * Werner Abraham Language *

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