Del 5 i serien Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

The Unaccusativity Puzzle

Explorations of the Syntax-Lexicon Interface

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

AvArtemis Alexiadou,Elena Anagnostopoulou,Martin Everaert

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The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. The Unaccusative Hypothesis, first formulated in 1978, claimed that there are two classes of intransitive verbs, the unaccusative (Jill arrived) and the unergative or agentive (Jill sings). The hypothesis has provided a rich context for debating whether syntactic behaviour is semantically or lexically determined, the consequence of syntactic context, or a combination of these factors. No consensus has been reached. This book combines contemporary approaches to the subject with several papers that have achieved a significant status even though formally unpublished.

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Utgivningsdatum2004-01-08
Mått106 x 204 x 25 mm
Vikt664 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
Antal sidor384
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199257645

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Series editors' preface ; Introduction ; 1. A Semantics for unaccusatives and its syntactic consequences ; 2. Unaccusativity as telicity checking ; 3. Unergative adjectives and psych-verbs ; 4. Voice morphology in the causative-inchoative alternation: evidence for a non unified structural analysis of unaccusatives ; 5. Unaccusative syntax and verbal alternations ; 6. Against an unaccusative analysis of reflexives ; 7. Unaccusatives and anticausatives in German ; 8. Syntactic unaccusativity in Russian ; 9. Gradience at the lexicon-syntax interface: evidence from auxiliary selection ; 10. Unaccusativity in Saramaccan: the syntax of resultatives ; 11. The grammar machine ; 12. Acquiring unaccusativity: a cross-linguistic look ; Index