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The syntax of (anti- )causatives : external arguments in change-of-state contexts /
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 c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 126. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 m. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 324 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-316) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027290700 9027290709 128210571X 9781282105713 |
| ISSN: | 0166-0829 ; |