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The Syntax of Aspect
Deriving Thematic and Aspectual Interpretation
Edited by Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport
332 pages
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2 tables, numerous line drawings
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234x156mm
978-0-19-928044-5
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Paperback
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26 May 2005
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- New work by internationally known scholars
- Considers a wide range of languages including English, Hindi/Urdu, French, Finnish, Navajo, Malagasy, Tagalog, Germanic, and Slavic
- Throws new light on language acquisition and universal grammar
- Can be used as a textbook for advanced courses on the nature of the lexicon and on the lexicon-syntax interface
This book investigates the way grammar deals with the representation of aspectual (aktionsart) concepts, focussing on issues of the lexicon-syntax interface. The authors' innovative analyses of this interface significantly advance our understanding of the role that syntax plays in determining verbal meaning, aspectual interpretation, and thematic information.
Various theories are developed in this collection, including those that take as their starting point the lexical-syntactic framework of Hale and Keyser, prominent among which is the chapter by Hale and Keyser themselves.
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examining different phenomena in a cross-linguistic perspective, this book develops insights into the general theoretical question of universal grammar and acquisition as well as into the specific nature of the lexicon-syntax interface. It is a major contribution to modern syntactic theory.Readership: Theoretical linguists, particularly syntacticians and lexical semanticists
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Edited by Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Ben-Gurion University, and Tova Rapoport, Ben-Gurion University Contributors:
Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz
Edit Doron, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Adele E. Goldberg, Princeton University
Jacqueline Gueron, Universityof Paris 3 - Sorbonne
Ken Hale, deceased
Heidi Harley, University of Arizona
Samuel Jay Keyzser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Beth Levin, Stanford University
Anita Mittwoch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gillian Ramchand, University of Tromsoe
Malka
Rappaport Hovav, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
carlota Smith, University of Texas
Lisa Travis, McGill University in Montreal
Stephen Wechsler, University of Texas at Austin
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"important contribution to the literature on aspect, argument mapping and interpretation, and the interface between the lexicon and the syntax." - Karen Zagona, Journal of Linguistics "an important contribution to the literature on aspect, argument mapping and interpretation, and the interface between the lexicon and the syntax ... this volume offers important insights into the structural and semantic underpinnings of the temporal and thematic properties of predicates, which take into account and are founded on a wealth of data from a range of languages." - Karen Zagona, Journal of Linguistics
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1 From Lexical Roots to Syntax
1: Introduction
2: Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser: Aspect and the Syntax of Argument Structure
3: Heidi Harley: How do Verbs Get their Names? Denominal Verbs, Manner Incorporation and the Ontology of Verb Roots in English
4: Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport: Path Predicates
2 Event Structure and Feature Projections
5: Jacqueline Gueron: Tense, Person, and Transitivity
6: Miriam Butt and Gillian Ramchand: Complex Aspectual Structure in Hindi/Urdu
7: Edit Doron: The Aspect of Agency
8: Lisa Travis: Agents and Causes in Malagasy and Tagalog
9: Carlota S. Smith: Event Structure and Morphosyntax in Navajo
3 Lexical Restrictions on Syntax
10: Adele E. Goldberg: Constructions, Lexical Semantics and the Correspondence Principle: Accounting for Generalizations and Subregularities in the Realization of Arguments
11: Anita Mittwoch: Unspecified Arguments in Episodic and Habitual Sentences
12: Stephen Wechsler: Resultatives under the 'Event-Argument Homomorphism' Model of Telicity
13: Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin: Change of State Verbs: Implications for Theories of Argument Projection
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