The Syntax Of Anti Causatives

Author : Florian Schäfer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027290709
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Syntax of (Anti-)Causatives written by Florian Schäfer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-26 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops an approach to the causative alternation that assumes syntactic event decomposition and a configurational theta theory. It is couched within the framework of the Minimalist Program and, especially, within Distributed Morphology. Central to the work is the syntax and semantics of canonical external arguments of causative verbs as well as of oblique causers and causative PPs in the context of anticausative verbs in different languages such as Germanic, Romance, Balkan, and Caucasian languages. The book also develops a new account of the origin and nature of the morphological marking which is often found on anticausatives across languages. The main claim is that this morphology is a reflex of a syntactic way to prohibit the assignment of the external theta role. Moreover, the book develops an account about the origin of the implicit agent in generic middles which often bear the same morphology as marked anticausatives.

Author : Florian Schäfer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027255091
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Syntax of (anti-)causatives written by Florian Schäfer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops an approach to the causative alternation that assumes syntactic event decomposition and a configurational theta theory. It is couched within the framework of the Minimalist Program and, especially, within Distributed Morphology. Central to the work is the syntax and semantics of canonical external arguments of causative verbs as well as of oblique causers and causative PPs in the context of anticausative verbs in different languages such as Germanic, Romance, Balkan, and Caucasian languages. The book also develops a new account of the origin and nature of the morphological marking which is often found on anticausatives across languages. The main claim is that this morphology is a reflex of a syntactic way to prohibit the assignment of the external theta role. Moreover, the book develops an account about the origin of the implicit agent in generic middles which often bear the same morphology as marked anticausatives.

Author : Steffen Heidinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110251353
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French anticausatives written by Steffen Heidinger and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do new ways of encoding valence alternations emerge, how and why do they spread, and what are the consequences of their emergence and spread for already existing patterns? This book discusses these questions on the basis of a concrete example of valence alternation, the French causative-anticausative alternation. The main focus of the proposed analysis is the anticausative member of the alternation and the relation between the two formal types of anticausative verbs in French, the reflexive and the unmarked anticausative (La branche s'est cassée vs. La branche a cassé 'The branch broke'). The emergence and spread of the reflexive anticausative, the consequences of these processes for the unmarked anticausative and the semantic relation between reflexive and unmarked anticausatives are analyzed on the basis of several corpus studies.

Author : Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110859920
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Levels of representation in the lexicon and in the syntax written by Maria Luisa Zubizarreta and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

Author : Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199571945
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations written by Artemis Alexiadou and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective. It uses data principally from English, German, and Greek to investigate the causative/anti-causative alternation and the formation of adjectival participles.

Author : Judith Aissen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Syntax of Causative Constructions written by Judith Aissen and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Wood
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319091387
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure written by Jim Wood and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed study of Icelandic argument structure alternations within a syntactic theory of argument structure. Building on recent theorizing within the Minimalist Program and Distributed Morphology, the author proposes that much of what is traditionally attributed to syntax should be relegated to the interfaces, and adapts the late insertion theory of morphology to semantics. The resulting system forms sound-meaning pairs by generating hierarchical structures that can be translated into morphological representations, on the one hand, and semantic representations, on the other. The syntactic primitives, however, underdetermine both morphophonology and semantics. Without appealing to special stipulations, the theory derives constraints on the external argument of causative-alternation verbs, interpretive restrictions on nominative objects, and the optionally agentive interpretation of verbs denoting self-directed motion.

Author : Ogbonna Ndubuisi Anyanwu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Syntax of Igbo Causatives written by Ogbonna Ndubuisi Anyanwu and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bridget Copley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199672075
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Causation in Grammatical Structures written by Bridget Copley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume grew out of a conference called "Forces in Grammatical Structures" that was held in Paris in 2007 -- Page x.

Author : Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191757433
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations written by Artemis Alexiadou and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective. It uses data principally from English, German, and Greek to investigate the causative/anti-causative alternation and the formation of adjectival participles.