The Syntax of Aspect

Deriving Thematic and Aspectual Interpretation
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-928044-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 503 g

This book investigates the way grammar deals with the representation of aspectual (aktionsart) concepts, focussing on issues of the lexicon-syntax interface. The authors' innovative analyses of this interface significantly advance our understanding of the role that syntax plays in determining verbal meaning, aspectual interpretation, and thematic information.

Various theories are developed in this collection, including those that take as their starting point the lexical-syntactic framework of Hale and Keyser, prominent among which is the chapter by Hale and Keyser themselves.

By examining different phenomena in a cross-linguistic perspective, this book develops insights into the general theoretical question of universal grammar and acquisition as well as into the specific nature of the lexicon-syntax interface. It is a major contribution to modern syntactic theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erteschik-Shir, Nomi

Rapoport, Tova

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

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.