The Unaccusativity Puzzle

Explorations of the Syntax-Lexicon Interface

AvArtemis Alexiadou,Elena Anagnostopoulou

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. The Unaccusative Hypothesis, first formulated in 1978, claimed that there are two classes of intransitive verbs, the unaccusative (Jill arrived) and the unergative or agentive (Jill sings). The hypothesis has provided a rich context for debating whether syntactic behaviour is semantically or lexically determined, the consequence of syntactic context, or a combination of these factors. No consensus has been reached. This book combines contemporary approaches to the subject with several papers that have achieved a significant status even though formally unpublished.

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Utgivningsdatum:2004-01-08
Mått:106 x 204 x 25 mm
Vikt:664 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199257645

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...a very valuable volume on the topic of unaccusativity. The editors have introduced expertly the volume, the phenomenon, and its analyses.

Innehållsförteckning

Series editors' preface ; Introduction ; 1. A Semantics for unaccusatives and its syntactic consequences ; 2. Unaccusativity as telicity checking ; 3. Unergative adjectives and psych-verbs ; 4. Voice morphology in the causative-inchoative alternation: evidence for a non unified structural analysis of unaccusatives ; 5. Unaccusative syntax and verbal alternations ; 6. Against an unaccusative analysis of reflexives ; 7. Unaccusatives and anticausatives in German ; 8. Syntactic unaccusativity in Russian ; 9. Gradience at the lexicon-syntax interface: evidence from auxiliary selection ; 10. Unaccusativity in Saramaccan: the syntax of resultatives ; 11. The grammar machine ; 12. Acquiring unaccusativity: a cross-linguistic look ; Index