Unaccusativity

At the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface

Szerző: Beth Levin, Malka Rappaport Hovav

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: MIT Press Ltd

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Unaccusativity is an extended investigation into a set of linguistic phenomena that have received mu...

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Szerző

Beth Levin, Malka Rappaport Hovav

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

1994

oldal

350

EAN

9780262620949

ISBN

0262620944

Enbook ID

04562500

Kiadó

MIT Press Ltd

Súly

568

Méretek

227 x 152 x 27

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Unaccusativity is an extended investigation into a set of linguistic phenomena that have received much attention over the last fifteen years. Besides providing extensive support for David Perlmutter's hypothesis that unaccusativity is syntactically represented but semantically determined, this monograph contributes significantly to the development of a theory of lexical semantic representation and to the elucidation of the mapping from lexical semantics to syntax.Perlmutter's Unaccusative Hypothesis proposes that there are two classes of intransitive verbs - unergatives and unaccusatives - each associated with a distinct syntactic configuration. Unaccusativity begins by isolating the semantic factors that determine whether a verb will be unaccusative or unergative through a careful examination of the behavior of intransitive verbs from a range of semantic classes in diverse syntactic constructions. Notable are the extensive discussions of verbs of motion, verbs of emission, and various types of verbs of change of state.The authors then introduce rules that determine the syntactic expression of the arguments of the verbs investigated and examine the interactions among them. The proper treatment of verbs that systematically show multiple meanings - and hence variable classification as unaccusative or unergative - is also considered. In the final chapter, the authors argue that the distribution of locative inversion, a purported unaccusative diagnostic, is determined instead by discourse considerations.Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 26

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