The Syntax of Aspect

Deriving Thematic and Aspectual Interpretation
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-928043-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 648 g

New work by internationally known scholars
- Considers a wide range of languages including English, Hindi/Urdu, French, Finnish, Navajo, Malagasy, Tagalog, Germanic, and Slavic

- Throws new light on language acquisition and universal grammar

- Can be used as a textbook for advanced courses on the nature of the lexicon and on the lexicon-syntax interface

Contents

- 1 From Lexical Roots to Syntax

- 1 Introduction

- 2 Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser: Aspect and the Syntax of Argument Structure

- 3 Heidi Harley: How do Verbs Get their Names? Denominal Verbs, Manner Incorporation and the Ontology of Verb Roots in English

- 4 Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport: Path Predicates

- 2 Event Structure and Feature Projections

- 5 Jacqueline Gueron: Tense, Person, and Transitivity

- 6 Miriam Butt and Gillian Ramchand: Complex Aspectual Structure in Hindi/Urdu

- 7 Edit Doron: The Aspect of Agency

- 8 Lisa Travis: Agents and Causes in Malagasy and Tagalog

- 9 Carlota S. Smith: Event Structure and Morphosyntax in Navajo

- 3 Lexical Restrictions on Syntax

- 10 Adele E. Goldberg: Constructions, Lexical Semantics and the Correspondence Principle: Accounting for Generalizations and Subregularities in the Realization of Arguments

- 11 Anita Mittwoch: Unspecified Arguments in Episodic and Habitual Sentences

- 12 Stephen Wechsler: Resultatives under the 'Event-Argument Homomorphism' Model of Telicity

- 13 Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin: Change of State Verbs: Implications for Theories of Argument Projection

- References

Zielgruppe

Theoretical linguists, particularly syntacticians and lexical semanticists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erteschik-Shir, Nomi

Rapoport, Tova

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1 From Lexical Roots to Syntax

- 1: Introduction

- 2: Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser: Aspect and the Syntax of Argument Structure

- 3: Heidi Harley: How do Verbs Get their Names? Denominal Verbs, Manner Incorporation and the Ontology of Verb Roots in English

- 4: Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport: Path Predicates

- 2 Event Structure and Feature Projections

- 5: Jacqueline Gueron: Tense, Person, and Transitivity

- 6: Miriam Butt and Gillian Ramchand: Complex Aspectual Structure in Hindi/Urdu

- 7: Edit Doron: The Aspect of Agency

- 8: Lisa Travis: Agents and Causes in Malagasy and Tagalog

- 9: Carlota S. Smith: Event Structure and Morphosyntax in Navajo

- 3 Lexical Restrictions on Syntax

- 10: Adele E. Goldberg: Constructions, Lexical Semantics and the Correspondence Principle: Accounting for Generalizations and Subregularities in the Realization of Arguments

- 11: Anita Mittwoch: Unspecified Arguments in Episodic and Habitual Sentences

- 12: Stephen Wechsler: Resultatives under the 'Event-Argument Homomorphism' Model of Telicity

- 13: Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin: Change of State Verbs: Implications for Theories of Argument Projection

- References

Über Autor(innen)

Nomi Erteschik-Shir is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Her publications include The Dynamics of Focus Structure (1997). She is writing The Syntax-Discourse Interface: Information Structure (forthcoming in Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology).

Tova Rapoport is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. She is currently working on a theory of syntax-driven interpretation, including a book with Nomi Erteschik-Shir on the lexicon-syntax interface, The Atoms of Meaning.