Hagit Borer received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at MIT in 1981. She has held positions at the University of California at Irvine and at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and is currently the chair of the linguistics department at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include syntax, morphosyntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and the acquisition of syntax.

• 1. SETTING COURSE ; 1. Exo-Skeletal Explanations - a Recap ; 2. Why Events? ; 2. THE PROJECTION OF ARGUMENTS ; 3. Structuring Telicity ; 4. (A)structuring Atelicity ; 5. Interpreting Telicity ; 6. Direct Range Assignment: The Slavic Paradigm ; 7. Direct Range Assignment: Telicity without Verkuyl's Generalization ; 8. How Fine-Grained? ; 3. LOCATIVES AND EVENT STRUCTURE ; 9. The Existential Road: Unergatives and Transitives ; 10. Slavification and Unaccusatives ; 11. Forward Oh!

Syntacticians like Borer define the big research questions for the rest of us. Two provocative and inspiring books.

Hagit Borer received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at MIT in 1981. She has held positions at the University of California at Irvine and at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and is currently the chair of the linguistics department at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include syntax, morphosyntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and the acquisition of syntax.

• 1. SETTING COURSE ; 1. Exo-Skeletal Explanations - a Recap ; 2. Why Events? ; 2. THE PROJECTION OF ARGUMENTS ; 3. Structuring Telicity ; 4. (A)structuring Atelicity ; 5. Interpreting Telicity ; 6. Direct Range Assignment: The Slavic Paradigm ; 7. Direct Range Assignment: Telicity without Verkuyl's Generalization ; 8. How Fine-Grained? ; 3. LOCATIVES AND EVENT STRUCTURE ; 9. The Existential Road: Unergatives and Transitives ; 10. Slavification and Unaccusatives ; 11. Forward Oh!

Syntacticians like Borer define the big research questions for the rest of us. Two provocative and inspiring books.

Hagit Borer received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at MIT in 1981. She has held positions at the University of California at Irvine and at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and is currently the chair of the linguistics department at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include syntax, morphosyntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and the acquisition of syntax.

• 1. SETTING COURSE ; 1. Exo-Skeletal Explanations - a Recap ; 2. Why Events? ; 2. THE PROJECTION OF ARGUMENTS ; 3. Structuring Telicity ; 4. (A)structuring Atelicity ; 5. Interpreting Telicity ; 6. Direct Range Assignment: The Slavic Paradigm ; 7. Direct Range Assignment: Telicity without Verkuyl's Generalization ; 8. How Fine-Grained? ; 3. LOCATIVES AND EVENT STRUCTURE ; 9. The Existential Road: Unergatives and Transitives ; 10. Slavification and Unaccusatives ; 11. Forward Oh!

Syntacticians like Borer define the big research questions for the rest of us. Two provocative and inspiring books.