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The Theta System
Argument Structure at the Interface
Edited by Martin Everaert, Marijana Marelj, and Tal Siloni
432 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-960252-0
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Paperback
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05 April 2012
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- Tackles some of the core issues of current linguistic theory
- Sheds light on old empirical puzzles and brings forth new empirical data
- Presents the basic tool kit of the Theta System, as well as its latest modifications, domain extensions and criticism, all at one place
Before she died in 2007, Tanya Reinhart had gone a long way towards developing the Theta System, a theory in which formal features defining the thematic relations of verbs are encoded in the lexicon, enabling an interface between the lexical component and the computational system/syntax, directly, and the Inference system, indirectly.
This book considers the recent results and evaluations of Tanya Reinhart's research in both theoretical and experimental domains. After a comprehensive presentation of the framework by the editors, distinguished linguists from all
over the world examine the underpinning of the Theta System, compare the framework to alternative approaches, and consider its implications for the architecture of grammar. In addition, they consider and exemplify the applications of the system and offer improvements and extensions.
The book is an important contribution to linguistic research. It engages in the key dialogue between competing lexicalist and syntactic approaches to lexico-semantic problems and does so in the context of an impressive array of new empirical data ranging from Germanic, Romance, and Slavic to Ugro-Finnish, and Semitic languages.Readership: Students and researchers of theoretical linguistics, from advanced
undergraduate level and above, as well as researchers in lexicology
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Edited by Martin Everaert, Director of the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Marijana Marelj, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Utrecht University, and Tal Siloni, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University 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.
Contributors:
Martin Everaert, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, OTS
Marijana Marelj, Utrecht University
Tal Siloni, Tel Aviv University
Peter Ackema, University of Edinburgh
Hagit Borer, University of Southern California
João Costa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Alexis Dimitriadis, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS
Julie Fadlon, Tel-Aviv University
Na'ama Friedmann, Tel-Aviv University
Martin Haiden, University of Tours
Hans van de Koot, University College London
Beth Levin, Stanford University
Aya Meltzer-Asscher, Northwestern
University
Ad Neeleman, University College London
Joseph Potashnik, Tel-Aviv University
György Rákosi, University of Debrecen
Malka Rappaport Hovav, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Edwin Williams, Princeton University
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1: Introduction: The Theta System
2: Ad Neeleman and Hans van de Koot: The Linguistic Expression of Causation
3: Martin Haiden: The Content of Semantic Roles: Predicate-argument structure in language and cognition
4: Edwin Williams: Combine
5: Hagit Borer: In the Event of a Nominal
6: Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin: Lexicon Uniformity and the Causative Alternation
7: György Rákosi: In Defense of the Non-causative Analysis of Anticausatives
8: Julie Fadlon: Hidden Entries: A psycholinguistic study of derivational gaps
9: Peter Ackema and Marijana Marelj: To Have the Empty Theta-role
10: Joseph Potashnik: Emission Verbs
11: Aya Meltzer-Asscher: Verbal Passives in English and Hebrew: A comparative study
12: Alexis Dimitriadis: An Event Semantics for the Theta System
13: João Costa and Na'ama Friedmann: Children Acquire Unaccusative and A-movement Very Early on
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The specification in this catalogue, including without limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations, and month of publication, was as accurate as possible at the time the catalogue was compiled. Occasionally, due to the nature of some contractual restrictions, we are unable to ship a specific product to a particular territory. Jacket images are provisional and liable to change before publication.
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