The Syntax of Aspect

Nomi Erteschik-Shir is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Her publications include The Dynamics of Focus Structure (1997). She is writing The Syntax-Discourse Interface: Information Structure (forthcoming in Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology).Tova Rapoport is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. She is currently working on a theory of syntax-driven interpretation, including a book with Nomi Erteschik-Shir on the lexicon-syntax interface, The Atoms of Meaning.

• 1 FROM LEXICAL ROOTS TO SYNTAX ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Aspect and the Syntax of Argument Structure ; 3. How do Verbs Get their Names? Denominal Verbs, Manner Incorporation and the Ontology of Verb Roots in English ; 4. Path Predicates ; 2 EVENT STRUCTURE AND FEATURE PROJECTIONS ; 5. Tense, Person, and Transitivity ; 6. Complex Aspectual Structure in Hindi/Urdu ; 7. The Aspect of Agency ; 8. Agents and Causes in Malagasy and Tagalog ; 9. Event Structure and Morphosyntax in Navajo ; 3 LEXICAL RESTRICTIONS ON SYNTAX ; 10. Constructions, Lexical Semantics and the Correspondence Principle: Accounting for Generalizations and Subregularities in the Realization of Arguments ; 11. Unspecified Arguments in Episodic and Habitual Sentences ; 12. Resultatives under the 'Event-Argument Homomorphism' Model of Telicity ; 13. Change of State Verbs: Implications for Theories of Argument Projection ; References

important contribution to the literature on aspect, argument mapping and interpretation, and the interface between the lexicon and the syntax.