Introducing arguments /

Introducing arguments /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Pylkkänen, Liina.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 156 pages)
Language:	English Venda
Series:	Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 49 Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 49.
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase. Generative grammar. Generative grammar. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11171843

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ISBN:	9780262281980 0262281988 9781435651883 143565188X 0262162547 9780262162548 0262662094 9780262662093
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-153) and index. Text in English and Venda. Print version record.
Summary:	This compositional theory of verbal argument structures explores how 'noncore' arguments (i.e. arguments that are not introduced by verbal roots themselves) are introduced into argument structure, and examines cross-linguistic variation in introducing arguments.
Other form:	Print version: Pylkkänen, Liina. Introducing arguments. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008 9780262162548 0262162547
Standard no.:	9780262162548

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Introduction
1.1. "Noncore" Arguments
1.2. Representing Verbs and Their Arguments
1.3. Summary of the Proposal: Seven Argument Introducers
Ch. 2 Applicatives
2.1. High and Low Applicatives
2.2. Hebrew Possessor Dative Constructions as Low Source Applicatives
2.3. Japanese Adversity Passives as High and Low Applicatives
2.4. Other Applicative Asymmetries and Previous Approaches
Ch. 3 Causatives
3.1. Summary of the Proposal on the Syntax and Semantics of Causatives
3.2. Similarity: CAUSE Is Not a 0ä-Role
3.3. Variation: Cause and Voice Bundling
3.4. Variation: Cause Selects for Roots, Verbs, or Phases
3.5. Voice Bundling and Transitivity Restrictions
3.6. Summary of Sections 3.1-3.5
3.7. Implications for Bantu Morpheme-Ordering Restrictions
3.8. Previous Approaches to Causativization
Ch. 4 Closing Remarks
4.1. High Applicatives and the Representation of External Arguments
4.2. Eliminating Linking.