Arguments as relations - Bowers, John S. (MIT Press, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-231) and index
Series forward -- Preface -- 1. Introduction and overview -- 2. Passive -- 3. Affectee arguments -- 4. Grammatical function changing morphology -- 5. Derived nominals -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix A. A compositional semantics for argument heads -- Appendix B. First application of merge -- Notes -- References -- Index
Bowers proposes a radically new approach to argument structure that has the potential to unify data from a wide range of different language types in terms of a simple and universal syntactic structure