Travis Inner Aspect

The Articulation of VP
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-90-481-8550-4
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 80, 308 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Finishing this book was one of the most difficult things I have ever done. It took far too long from original idea to page proofs and suffered from being relegated to small corners of my life. It was very rarely on the front burner. Since I started working on this topic in 1991, there has been a lot of interesting work done on the areas of the articulation of VP, phrase structure mirroring event structure, the use of functional categories to represent Aktionsart, and many other areas that the research presented here touches on. The hardest thing about doing a project of this size is to accept that not everyone's ideas can be addressed and not all new research can be incorporated. The only way that I have found it possible to let this book go to press is to reread the Preface to Events in the Semantics of English by Terence Parsons where he writes, ''The goal of this book is neither completeness nor complete accuracy; it is to get some interesting proposals into the public arena for others to criticize, develop, and build on. '' My aim in this book is to make connections between various accounts of various constructions in various languages at the risk of treating each of these too lightly. I am grateful to too many people to thank them individually.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Travis, Lisa Demena

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;INNER ASPECT;1
1.1;Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory;2
1.2;Preface;7
1.3;Contents;9
2;Introduction;13
2.1;1.1 Aspect and Syntax;14
2.1.1;1.1.1 Outer Aspect and Syntax;14
2.1.2;1.1.2 Inner Aspect and Syntax;15
2.2;1.2 Inner Aspect;16
2.2.1;1.2.1 Derived Objects;18
2.2.2;1.2.2 Aspectual Morphology;19
2.2.3;1.2.3 Computation of Aktionsart;21
2.3;1.3 Other Claims;23
2.3.1;1.3.1 Lexical and Functional Categories ;23
2.3.2;1.3.2 The Role of the Lexicon;24
2.4;1.4 Some Consequences;26
2.4.1;1.4.1 The Structure of Achievements;26
2.5;1.5 Coercion;27
2.6;1.6 A Note on Methodology;28
3;Inner Derived Objects;30
3.1;2.1 Introduction;30
3.2;2.2 Background;30
3.3;2.3 Early Proposals;32
3.3.1;2.3.1 Mahajan (1990);33
3.3.2;2.3.2 Johnson (1991);34
3.3.3;2.3.3 Sportiche (1990/1998);35
3.3.4;2.3.4 Koizumi (1993, 1995);35
3.3.5;2.3.5 Chomsky (1993, 1995);37
3.4;2.4 Two Object Positions;38
3.4.1;2.4.1 One Object: EITHER/OR;38
3.4.1.1;2.4.1.1 Chinese;40
3.4.1.2;2.4.1.2 Scots Gaelic ;41
3.4.2;2.4.2 Two Objects: both;43
3.5;2.5 Objects within the VP;45
3.5.1;2.5.1 Chinese;46
3.5.2;2.5.2 Swedish;48
3.5.3;2.5.3 Nominative Third (N3) Languages;50
3.5.4;2.5.4 Movement Vs. Base-Generation;55
3.6;2.6 Conclusion;61
4;Inner Aspect and Event;62
4.1;3.1 Introduction;62
4.2;3.2 Arguing for Inner Aspect;62
4.2.1;3.2.1 Tagalog Reduplication;64
4.2.2;3.2.2 Mirror Principle Violations in Navajo;73
4.2.3;3.2.3 Agreement in Tagalog;82
4.2.4;3.2.4 Summary;85
4.3;3.3 Arguing for the Existence of Event;86
4.3.1;3.3.1 Characteristics;88
4.3.1.1;3.3.1.1 Tense-Related Characteristics;88
4.3.1.2;3.3.1.2 Reference-Related Characteristics;91
4.3.2;3.3.2 The Function of F;96
4.3.2.1;3.3.2.1 Previous Characterizations;97
4.3.3;3.3.3 F Binds Event ‘‘Theta-Role’’ ;97
4.4;3.4 Partial A-Movement;99
4.5;3.5 Conclusion;102
5;Event Structure and Phrase Structure;103
5.1;4.1 Introduction;103
5.2;4.2 Preparing the Ground;104
5.2.1;4.2.1 Semantic Decomposition;104
5.2.2;4.2.2 Syntactic Articulation;107
5.2.2.1;4.2.2.1 VP-Internal Subjects;107
5.2.2.2;4.2.2.2 VP Shells;109
5.2.2.3;4.2.2.3 Lexical Semantics in Syntax;111
5.3;4.3 Semantics in the Syntax;112
5.3.1;4.3.1 Theta-Roles and the Uniformity of Theta Assignment Hypothesis (UTAH);112
5.3.2;4.3.2 Predicates and LCS;113
5.4;4.4 The Syntax of Event Structure;113
5.4.1;4.4.1 The Precursor: Generative Semantics;114
5.4.2;4.4.2 Aspectual Predicate Classes;117
5.4.3;4.4.3 Event Structure Representation;120
5.4.4;4.4.4 Phrase Structure Representation;125
5.4.5;4.4.5 The Position of Aspect;131
5.4.6;4.4.6 The Power of Aspect;132
5.5;4.5 Language Variation;133
5.5.1;4.5.1 Japanese;134
5.5.2;4.5.2 Chinese;138
5.5.3;4.5.3 Tagalog and Malagasy;138
5.5.4;4.5.4 The Telicity Parameter;139
5.6;4.6 Conclusion;140
6;Interaction of Objects and Aspect;142
6.1;5.1 The Interaction of Case and Aspect;142
6.1.1;5.1.1 Objects and Viewpoint Aspect;142
6.1.2;5.1.2 Objects and Situation Aspect;144
6.2;5.2 The Position of Incremental Themes;152
6.2.1;5.2.1 German VP-Internal Objects;153
6.2.2;5.2.2 Turkish and Malagasy Objects;157
6.2.2.1;5.2.2.1 Turkish Objects;157
6.2.2.2;5.2.2.2 Malagasy Objects;161
6.2.2.3;5.2.2.3 Turkish Objects Revisited;164
6.3;5.3 Conclusion;164
7;L-Syntax and S-Syntax;166
7.1;6.1 Background;167
7.2;6.2 Causatives;169
7.2.1;6.2.1 English ;169
7.2.2;6.2.2 Tagalog and Malagasy;171
7.3;6.3 Empty Anaphors in Tagalog;177
7.3.1;6.3.1 S-Syntax Anaphoric pro;177
7.3.2;6.3.2 L-Syntax Anaphoric pro;180
7.4;6.4 Where and What is L-syntax?;188
7.4.1;6.4.1 Syntax in the Lexicon;188
7.4.2;6.4.2 Lexical Entries in Syntax;190
7.4.3;6.4.3 Pag- as an Anti-EPP Morpheme;194
7.5;6.5 L-Syntax and the Lexicon;195
7.6;6.6 Summary;198
7.7;6.7 Discontinuous Lexical Items;202
7.7.1;6.7.1 Serial Verb Constructions;203
7.7.2;6.7.2 Inherent Complement Verbs;207
7.8;6.8 The Lexicon and Lexical Categories;210
7.8.1;6.8.1 Lexical Entries;210
7.8.2;6.8.2 M-Words;211
7.9;6.9 Conclusion;212
8;The Syntax of Achievements;214
8.1;7.1 Introduction;214
8.2;7.2 The Semantic Problem;215
8.2.1;7.2.1 Achievements as a Class;215
8.2.2;7.2.2 Achievements Not Linguistically Relevant;216
8.2.3;7.2.3 Achievements in Nontelic Languages;219
8.2.4;7.2.4 Achievements in Malagasy;222
8.3;7.3 The Shape of Achievements;228
8.3.1;7.3.1 The External Argument;229
8.3.2;7.3.2 ka- Deletion in Tagalog;235
8.3.3;7.3.3 Tense Realization in Malagasy;237
8.3.4;7.3.4 The Argument Structure of Cognition Verbs in Tagalog;239
8.3.5;7.3.5 Achievements as Pure Results;242
8.4;7.4 External Arguments and LCS;244
8.5;7.5 Conclusion;247
9;Bounds and Coercion;249
9.1;8.1 Introduction;249
9.2;8.2 Endpoints;249
9.2.1;8.2.1 Telicity in X;253
9.2.2;8.2.2 Telicity in V1;255
9.2.3;8.2.3 Telicity in Asp;258
9.2.4;8.2.4 Telicity in X and V1;261
9.2.5;8.2.5 An Aside: Different Types of Beginnings;265
9.3;8.3 Null Telic Morphemes and Lexical Entries;268
9.3.1;8.3.1 Zero Morphemes in X;269
9.3.2;8.3.2 Zero Morphemes in V1;270
9.3.3;8.3.3 Zero Morphemes in Asp;271
9.4;8.4 Coercion and Selection;272
9.5;8.5 Viewpoint vs. Situation Aspect;277
9.6;8.6 Conclusion;282
10;Conclusion;283
10.1;9.1 Introduction;283
10.2;9.2 Lexical vs. Functional;283
10.3;9.3 Lexical Entries and Idioms;285
10.4;9.4 Theta Roles and Aspectual Roles;288
10.4.1;9.4.1 Aspectual Theta-Roles in Double-Object Constructions;288
10.4.2;9.4.2 Aspectual Theta-Roles in Unaccusative Constructions;289
10.5;9.5 The Nature of Coercion;290
10.6;9.6 Further Questions;291
11;References;293
12;Author Index;307
13;Language Index;311
14;Subject Index;313