Artemis Alexiadou / Martin Everaert (eds.)

The Unaccusativity Puzzle

Explorations of the Syntax-Lexicon Interface
Herausgeber: Alexiadou, Artemis; Everaert, Martin; Anagnostopoulou, Elena

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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combines new approaches to the subject with several papers that have achieved a significant status even though formally unpublished. Among the issues the authors address are: the determination of the unaccusative class of verbs, the problem of unaccusativity diagnostics, the implications of special morphology for the structural representation of unaccusatives and the status of the external thematic role, the properties guiding the unergative versus unaccusative distinction in acquisition, and the properties of second-language lexicon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9780199257652
• ISBN-10: 0199257655
• Artikelnr.: 21598860

Autorenporträt

Alexiadou, Artemis (University of Potsdam, Germany) / Anagnostopoulou, Elena (University of Crete, Greece) / Everaert, Martin (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Netherlands)

Inhaltsangabe

* Series editors' preface
* Introduction
* 1: Gennaro Chierchia: A Semantics for unaccusatives and its syntactic
consequences
* 2: Angeliek van Hout: Unaccusativity as telicity checking
* 3: Hans Bennis: Unergative adjectives and psych-verbs
* 4: Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou: Voice morphology in
the causative-inchoative alternation: evidence for a non unified
structural analysis of unaccusatives
* 5: David Embick: Unaccusative syntax and verbal alternations
* 6: Tanya Reinhart and Tal Siloni: Against an unaccusative analysis of
reflexives
* 7: Markus Steinbach: Unaccusatives and anticausatives in German
* 8: Maaike Schoorlemmer: Syntactic unaccusativity in Russian
* 9: Antonella Sorace: Gradience at the lexicon-syntax interface:
evidence from auxiliary selection
* 10: Tonjes Veenstra: Unaccusativity in Saramaccan: the syntax of
resultatives
* 11: Hagit Borer: The grammar machine
* 12: Janet Randall, Angeliek van Hout, Juergen Weissenborn and Harald
Baayen: Acquiring unaccusativity: a cross-linguistic look
* Index