The syntax of aspect deriving thematic and aspectual interpretation /

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Erteschik-Shir, Nomi.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 10
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10271569
Table of Contents:
  • Aspect and the syntax of argument structure / Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser
  • How do verbs get their names? Demonimal verbs, manner incorporation, and the ontology of verb roots in English / Heidi Harley
  • Path predicates / Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport
  • Tense, person, and transitivity / Jacqueline Guβeron
  • Complex aspectual structure in Hindi/Urdu / Miriam Butt and Gillian Ramchand
  • The aspect of agency / Edit Doron
  • Agents and causes in Malagasy and Tagalog / Lisa Travis
  • Event structure and morphosyntax in Navajo / Carlota S. Smith
  • Constructions, lexical semantics, and the correspondence principle : accounting for generalizations and subregularities in the realization of arguments / Adele E. Goldberg
  • Unspecified arguments in episodic and habitual sentences / Anita Mittwoch
  • Resultatives under the event argument homomorphism model of telicity / Stephen Wechsler
  • Change of state verbs : implications for theories of argument projection / Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin.