The syntax of (anti- )causatives: external arguments in change-of-state contexts
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Beteilige Person: Schäfer, Florian (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam John Benjamins ©2008
Schriftenreihe:Linguistik aktuell Bd. 126
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-316) and indexes
The Syntax of (Anti- )Causatives; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. The morphological patterns of anticausatives and their interpretation; Chapter 2. The dative causer construction; Chapter 3. Datives and changes of state; Chapter 4. The causative alternation; Chapter 5. The syntax of marked anticausatives: Part I; Chapter 6. Generic middles; Chapter 7. The syntax of marked anticausatives: Part II; References; Index of names; Index of subjects; The series Linguistik Aktuell
This book develops an approach to the causative alternation that assumes syntactic event decomposition and a configurational theta theory. It is couched within the framework of the Minimalist Program and, especially, within Distributed Morphology. Central to the work is the syntax and semantics of canonical external arguments of causative verbs as well as of oblique causers and causative PPs in the context of anticausative verbs in different languages such as Germanic, Romance, Balkan, and Caucasian languages. The book also develops a new account of the origin and nature of the morphological m
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ISBN:9027255091
9027290709
9789027255099
9789027290700