Functional constraints in grammar on the unergative-unaccusative distinction - Kuno, Susumu (John Benjamins Pub., 2004)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and indexes
Functional Constraints in Grammar; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Acknowledgement; 1. Introduction; 2. The there-construction and unaccusativity; 3. The way construction and unergativity; 4. The cognate object construction and unergativity; 5. The pseudo-passive construction and unergativity; 6. Extraposition from subject NPs and unaccusativity; 7. Conclusion; Notes; References; Name index; Subject index; The series Constructional Approaches to Language
This book examines in detail the acceptability status of sentences in the following five English constructions, and elucidates the syntactic, semantic, and functional requirements that the constructions must satisfy in order to be appropriately used: There-Construction, (One's) Way Construction, Cognate Object Construction, Pseudo-Passive Construction, and Extraposition from Subject NPs. It has been argued in the frameworks of Chomskyan generative grammar, relational grammar, conceptual semantics and other syntactic theories that the acceptability of sentences in these constructions can be acc