Argument Structure (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, 18)

Grimshaw, Jane

ISBN 10: 0262570904 / ISBN 13: 9780262570909

Editore: The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992

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Titolo: Argument Structure (Linguistic Inquiry ...

Casa editrice: The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Data di pubblicazione: 1992

Legatura: Softcover

Condizione: Good Condition

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Riassunto:

Argument Structure is a contribution to linguistics at the interface between lexical syntax and lexical semantics. It formulates an original and highly predictive theory of argument structure that accounts for a large number of syntactic phenomena. The main analytical focus is on passives, nominals, psychological predicates, and the theory of external arguments. In the course of Argument Structure, Jane Grimshaw suggests that, contrary to the prevailing view, argument structure is in fact structured; it encodes prominence relations among arguments which reflect both their thematic and their aspectual properties. The prominence relations support a new theory of external arguments, with far reaching consequences for the syntactic behavior of predicates, and the nature of cross-categorial variation in argument structure.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Jane Grimshaw is Professor of Linguistics and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University.