Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ATYPICAL PREDICATE-ARGUMENT RELATIONS
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Atypical realization of the main arguments of the verb
  • Verbs of pain and accusative subjects in Romanian
  • 0. Introduction
  • 1. The Inalienable Possession Hypothesis vs. the Unaccusativity Hypothesis
  • 2. Verbs of pain and their argument structures
  • 3. [Mă Vpain NPbody part]: Identifying subjects and objects
  • 4. Verbs of pain and the opposition accusative vs. dative subjects
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
  • Non-canonical 'existential-like' constructions in Colloquial Modern Hebrew
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A semantic classification
  • 3. The 'coercive force' of the construction and its semantic scope
  • 4. Behavioral and coding properties of the construction in CMH
  • 5. Structural analysis
  • 6. The functional sentence perspective and the speaker's perspectival choice
  • 7. Summary and conclusions
  • References
  • IO realization variation in Spanish reverse psych verb sentences
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Distribution of clitic doubling in psych verb sentences with a post verbal IO
  • 3. Any systematic distributional differences between the two variant constructions?
  • 4. Implications
  • References
  • Non-human agents as subjects in English and Dutch: A corpus-based translation study
  • Introduction
  • 1. Theoretical preliminaries
  • 2. Non-human agents as subjects of give and geven
  • 3. Corpus data and methodology
  • 4. Data-analysis: English instances and their Dutch translations
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Online dictionary items
  • Part 2. Valency-changing devices and non-finite verb forms
  • The argument-structure configuration of English middle and related structures
  • Introduction
  • 1. What are middles?
  • 2. English diathesis alternations.
  • 3. The representation of argument structure
  • References
  • Non-categorical categories. Aspect, Voice, Pred and the category of Participles
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A typology of non-finite forms
  • 3. Underspecified Participles in Romanian
  • 4. Conclusions
  • References
  • Part 3. Variations in transitivity
  • The semantic motivation of non-canonical predicative relations: The French transitive construction
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The transitive construction
  • 3. The meaning of the transitive construction
  • 4. The meaning of the transitive construction in contemporary French: Case studies
  • 5. The meaning of the transitive construction in contemporary French: Deductions
  • References
  • Atypical argument structures in French: From metaphorical uses to atypical ones
  • Introduction
  • 1. Distinction between external and internal causation
  • 2. Two descriptive modes of causative events
  • 3. Atypic uses
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Split intransitivity in Lamaholot (East Flores, Indonesia)
  • Introduction
  • 1. Split intransitivity: A definition
  • 2. Agreement morphology in Lamaholot
  • 3. Lexically fixed intransitive split (Split-S)
  • 4. Fluid intransitive split (Fluid-S)
  • 5. Fluid intransitive split and aspect marking
  • 6. Split intransitivity and the Lamaholot dialect chain
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part 4. Norm variation in predicate-arguments relations
  • Geographic variation in a non-canonical infinitive structure with the modal verb brauchen
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Corpora analysis
  • 3. Theoretical accounts
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
  • Verbal constructions in spoken language deviating from the norm: Reflections on atypicality
  • 1. Introduction: What is atypical in a language?
  • 2. Norms described within "official" grammars
  • 3. Norms according to native speaker judgment of correct language use.
  • 4. Norms discovered via the corpus-based study and observations of language use
  • 5. Types of typicality and definition of atypicality
  • References
  • Index of authors
  • Index of subjects.