Argument structure and syntactic relations a cross-linguistic perspective (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Argument structure and syntactic relations / Maia Duguine, Susana Huidobro and Nerea Madariaga -- Part I. Semantic and syntactic properties of the event structure. Aspectual composition in causatives / Maria Babicheva and Mikhail Ivanov -- Atelicity and anticausativization / Ekaterina Lyutikova and Sergei Tatevosov -- Minimalist variability in the verb phrase / Jonathan E. MacDonald -- On the L-Syntax of manner and causation / Jaume Mateu -- Nominalization, event, aspect and argument structure: A syntactic approach / Petra Sleeman and Ana Maria Brito -- Part II. A cartographic view on argument structure. The syntax of argument structure / Leonard H. Babby -- Argument structure and quantifier scope / John Bowers -- Part III. Syntactic heads involved in argument structure. An L-Syntax for adjuncts / Ángel J. Gallego -- The derivation of dative alternations / Javier Ormazabal and Juan Romero -- Advances in Functional Linguistics : Basque ditransitives / Beñat Oyharçabal -- Applicative structure and Mandarin ditransitives / Waltraud Paul and John Whitman -- Unintentionally out of control / Knut Tarald Taraldsen -- Part IV. Argument structure in language acquisition. Zero time-arguments in French child language / Hamida Demirdache and Oana Lungu -- Reevaluating the role of innate linking rules in the acquisition of verb argument structure: Evidence from child Hebrew / Sigal Uziel-Karl -- Subject Index