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Author Pylkkänen, Liina.

Title Introducing arguments / Liina Pylkkänen
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 156 pages)
Series Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 49
Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 49.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Introduction -- 1.1. "Noncore" Arguments -- 1.2. Representing Verbs and Their Arguments -- 1.3. Summary of the Proposal: Seven Argument Introducers -- Ch. 2 Applicatives -- 2.1. High and Low Applicatives -- 2.2. Hebrew Possessor Dative Constructions as Low Source Applicatives -- 2.3. Japanese Adversity Passives as High and Low Applicatives -- 2.4. Other Applicative Asymmetries and Previous Approaches -- Ch. 3 Causatives -- 3.1. Summary of the Proposal on the Syntax and Semantics of Causatives -- 3.2. Similarity: CAUSE Is Not a 0ä-Role -- 3.3. Variation: Cause and Voice Bundling -- 3.4. Variation: Cause Selects for Roots, Verbs, or Phases -- 3.5. Voice Bundling and Transitivity Restrictions -- 3.6. Summary of Sections 3.1-3.5 -- 3.7. Implications for Bantu Morpheme-Ordering Restrictions -- 3.8. Previous Approaches to Causativization -- Ch. 4 Closing Remarks -- 4.1. High Applicatives and the Representation of External Arguments -- 4.2. Eliminating Linking
Summary This compositional theory of verbal argument structures explores how 'noncore' arguments (i.e. arguments that are not introduced by verbal roots themselves) are introduced into argument structure, and examines cross-linguistic variation in introducing arguments
Analysis LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-153) and index
Notes Text in English and Venda
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase.
Generative grammar.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Generative grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780262281980
0262281988
9781435651883
143565188X
0262162547
9780262162548
0262662094
9780262662093