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The syntax of aspect : deriving thematic and aspectual interpretation /

This work focuses on issues at the lexicon-syntax interface. It presents innovative analyses of theoretical issues of aspectual interpretation in a variety of languages. The authors address various questions in the field.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Erteschik-Shir, Nomi, Rapoport, Tova R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Colección:Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Aspect and the syntax of argument structure / Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser
  • How do verbs get their names? Demonimal verbs, manner incorporation, and the ontology of verb roots in English / Heidi Harley
  • Path predicates / Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport
  • Tense, person, and transitivity / Jacqueline Guéron
  • Complex aspectual structure in Hindi/Urdu / Miriam Butt and Gillian Ramchand
  • The aspect of agency / Edit Doron
  • Agents and causes in Malagasy and Tagalog / Lisa Travis
  • Event structure and morphosyntax in Navajo / Carlota S. Smith
  • Constructions, lexical semantics, and the correspondence principle : accounting for generalizations and subregularities in the realization of arguments / Adele E. Goldberg
  • Unspecified arguments in episodic and habitual sentences / Anita Mittwoch
  • Resultatives under the event argument homomorphism model of telicity / Stephen Wechsler
  • Change of state verbs : implications for theories of argument projection / Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin.