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L'alternance locative implique la possibilité pour certains verbes locatifs de réaliser syntaxiquement leurs arguments différemment. Un verbe comme to load, en anglais, permet que le constituant Locatum et le constituant Lieu soient réalisés dans la position d'objet direct alter…

This dissertation concerns the acquisition of mappings between lexical meaning and syntactic form in which arguments in the surface syntactic form may be left implicit, specifically focusing on indefinite implicit objects in English, e.g., John is eating (something). First, in a…

A question that has driven much of the current research in formal syntax is whether it is the lexicon or the syntax that determines the argument structure of a verb. This dissertation attempts to answer this question with a focus on Arabic, a language that has received little at…