Middles and Argument Structure across Languages

Marijana Marelj

ISBN 10: 3639511581 / ISBN 13: 9783639511581

Editore: Scholars' Press, 2013

Middles and Argument Structure across Languages | Marijana Marelj | Taschenbuch | 500 S. | Englisch | 2013 | Scholars' Press | EAN 9783639511581 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. Codice articolo 106063208

Riassunto:

Middles across languages share a core of common semantic characteristics. Yet, they exhibit striking differences, as shown on a language-sample that includes Dutch, English, Hebrew, French, Italian, Polish, and Serbo-Croatian. The author argues that a single ARB-operation, inspired by the ARB-saturation of Chierchia for impersonals, can derived the shared semantic properties of middles across languages. The theoretical framework assumed in the study is Reinhart's Theta System. The analysis rests on a further development of the thematic feature-system. The author argues that when Middle Formation applies in the lexicon, it involves a feature-change, creating an ARB-role. When in applies in the syntax (LF), role manipulation is not available, and it involves the arbitrarization of a variable instead. The syntactic differences follow from a locus of the operation. Other proposed modification of the system facilitate the solutions to puzzles of theta realizations other than middles.

L'autore: Marijana Marelj is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Utrecht University. Her research interests include the architecture of grammar, properties of the computational system/syntactic theory, Interfaces.

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Titolo: Middles and Argument Structure across ...
Casa editrice: Scholars' Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2013
Legatura: Taschenbuch
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