The Theta System

Martin Everaert is Professor of Linguistics at Utrecht University and Director of the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS. He works primarily on the syntax-semantics interface (anaphora: reflexives, reciprocals) and the lexicon-syntax interface (idioms/collocations, and argument structure).Marijana Marelj is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Utrecht University. She completed her thesis, entitled Middles and Argument Structure across Languages under the supervision of Tanya Reinhart and Eric Reuland. Her research interests include the Architecture of grammar, properties of the computational system/syntactic theory, Interfaces (lexicon-syntax interface and syntax-semantics interface), and Slavic, Germanic, and Romance languages.Tal Siloni is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Tel Aviv University and the chair of the department. Her major areas of research are syntactic theory and comparative syntax with particular reference to Semitic and Romance languages, the lexicon-syntax interface, argument structure, idioms, and nominalization.

• 1. Introduction: The Theta System ; 2. The Linguistic Expression of Causation ; 3. The Content of Semantic Roles: Predicate-argument structure in language and cognition ; 4. Combine ; 5. In the Event of a Nominal ; 6. Lexicon Uniformity and the Causative Alternation ; 7. In Defense of the Non-causative Analysis of Anticausatives ; 8. Hidden Entries: A psycholinguistic study of derivational gaps ; 9. To Have the Empty Theta-role ; 10. Emission Verbs ; 11. Verbal Passives in English and Hebrew: A comparative study ; 12. An Event Semantics for the Theta System ; 13. Children Acquire Unaccusative and A-movement Very Early on

a valuable and interesting read for any scholar or advanced student interested in lexical semantics.