Linking The Geometry of Argument Structure /

• Main Author: Randall, Janet H. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 74
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Grammar.; Semantics.; Syntax.; Cultural studies.; Linguistics, general.; Cultural Studies.; Theoretical Linguistics.

Linking – how semantic arguments map to the syntax – is one of the challenges for theories of the syntax-semantics interface. In this new approach, Janet Randall explores the hypothesis that the positions of syntactic arguments are strictly determined by lexical argument geometry. Yielding novel – i...

Table of Contents:

• A Geometric Theory of Linking
• Conceptual Structure
• Eliminating the Direct/Indirect Internal Argument Distinction
• Explaining Linking Regularities
• Syntactically Unexpressed Arguments, Incorporation, and Adjuncts
• The Linking of Resultative Verbs: Clausal Fusion
• The Prohibition Against Double Fusion
• More Linking Results Across the Lexicon
• Causative Verbs with PLACE Arguments
• Unaccusatives: A Cluster of Verb Classes
• Complex Causative Verbs
• Other Verb Classes, Other Issues, and Conclusions.