Title Statements
- Full title :Unaccusativity : at the syntax-lexical semantics interface / Beth Levin and Malka Rappaport Hovav.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©1995.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):MIT Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1995.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiii, 336 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0262121859, 9780262121859, 0262620944, 9780262620949
- oclc:ocm30436368
- LC Classification:P281
- Dewey Decimal:415
Table of Contents
Ch. 1. Introduction. 1.1. Unaccusativity Introduced. 1.2. Approaches to Unaccusativity. 1.3. Deep versus Surface Unaccusativity. 1.4. Assumptions about Lexical Representations -- Ch. 2. The Anatomy of a Diagnostic: The Resultative Construction. 2.1. The Distribution of Resultative Phrases. 2.2. The Syntax of the Resultative Construction. 2.3. Semantic Restrictions on the Resultative Construction. 2.4. Alternative Accounts of the Resultative Construction -- Ch. 3. The Causative Alternation: A Probe into Lexical Semantics and Argument Structure. 3.1. A Causative Analysis of Alternating Unaccusative Verbs. 3.2. A Closer Look at the Causative Alternation. 3.3. Verbs of Existence and Appearance -- Ch. 4. The Linking of Arguments. 4.1. The Linking Rules. 4.2. Ordering the Linking Rules. 4.3. Comparison with Other Approaches -- Ch. 5. Verbs with Multiple Meanings. 5.1. Rule-Governed Variable Behavior. 5.2. Consequences for Lexical Representation.
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