| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 372 pages) |
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Oxford linguistics |
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Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 5 |
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Oxford linguistics.
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Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 5.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou and Martin Everaert -- 1. A Semantics for Unaccusatives and its Syntactic Consequences / Gennaro Chierchia -- 2. Unaccusativity as Telicity Checking / Angeliek Van Hout -- 3. Unergative Adjectives and Psych Verbs / Hans Bennis -- 4. Voice Morphology in the Causative-Inchoative Alternation: Evidence for a Non-Unified Structural Analysis of Unaccusations / Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou -- 5. Unaccusative Syntax and Verbal Alternations / David Embick -- 6. Against an Unaccusative Analysis of Reflexives / Tanya Reinhart and Tal Siloni -- 7. Unaccusatives and Anticausatives in German / Markus Steinbach -- 8. Syntactic Unaccusativity in Russian / Maaike Schoorlemmer -- 9. Gradience at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface: Evidence from Auxiliary Selection and Implications for Unaccusativity / Antonella Sorace |
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10. Unaccusativity in Saramaccan: The Syntax of Resultatives / Tonjes Veenstra -- 11. The Grammar Machine / Hagit Borer -- 12. Acquiring Unaccusativity: A Cross-Linguistic Look / Janet Randall, Angelier Van Hout, Jurgen Weissenborn and Harald Baayen |
| Summary |
The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. This book combines contemporary approaches to the subject with several papers that have achieved a significant status even though formally unpublished |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Lexicology.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb
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Lexicology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Alexiadou, Artemis
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Anagnostopoulou, Elena
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Everaert, Martin
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| LC no. |
2003060967 |
| ISBN |
9780191717772 |
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0191717770 |
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9780199257645 |
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0199257647 |
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9780199257652 |
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0199257655 |
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