Unergativeunaccusative distinction a case study of. Keywords bilingual competence, lexicalsemantics, processing, spanish, syntax. At the syntax lexical semantics interface linguistic inquiry monographs 9780262620949 by levin, beth and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. A semantics for unaccusatives and its syntactic consequences. At the syntaxlexical semantics interface beth levin, malka rappaport hovav this text presents an extended investigation into a set of linguistic phenomena that have received much attention over the last 15 years. At the syntaxlexical semantics interface linguistic inquiry monographs beth levin on. Semantically bend verbs are divided into verbs denoting the bending of body parts, e.
Her research focuses on the lexical semantic representation of argumenttaking predicates, and its interfacewith conceptual structure and morphosyntax. At the syntaxlexical semantics interface, linguistic inquiry monograph 26, mit press, cambridge, ma. At the syntax lexical semantics interface beth levin, malka rappaport hovav this text presents an extended investigation into a set of linguistic phenomena that have received much attention over the last 15 years. Read how verbs and nonverbal categories navigate the syntaxsemantics interface. Pdf a semantic and syntactic analysis of break and bend. At the syntax lexical semantics interface, linguistic inquiry monograph 26, mit press, cambridge, ma. Paducheva decompositional semantics semantics verb.
At the syntaxlexical semantics interface beth levin and malka rappaport hovav 1994 besides providing extensive support for david perlmutters hypothesis that unaccusativity is syntactically represented but semantically determined, this monograph contributes significantly to the development of a theory of lexical semantic representation and to. The accusativegoal verbs mark their objects with accusative case o or the goal marker ni, and the accusativesource verbs mark their objects with accusative o or the source marker kara. Verb taxonomy and decompositional semantics of lexicon. Unaccusativity at the syntaxlexical semantics interface. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext.
Japanese has two types of twoplace motion verbs whose objects can be marked as either accusative or oblique accusativeoblique alternations. In chapter 4, a set of linking rules is presented that classify the various semantic classes, examined by the authors, into unaccusative and unergative. Pdf theories of lexical semantics download full pdf. An unaccusativity diagnostic at the syntaxsemantics interface. At the syntaxlexical semantics interface linguistic inquiry monographs by beth levin, malka rappaport hovav and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.
Concentrating on the lexical semantics of a verb and the syntactic. At the syntax lexical semantics interface beth levin and malka rappaport hovav 1994 besides providing extensive support for david perlmutters hypothesis that unaccusativity is syntactically represented but semantically determined, this monograph contributes significantly to the development of a theory of lexical semantic representation and to. Besides providing extensive support for david perlmutters hypothesis that unaccusativity is syntactically represented but semantically determined, this monograph contributes significantly to the development of a theory of lexical. I would like to say a special thank you to my colleagues, aya meltzerasscher. He was adamant, though, that ergativity as he defined it and unaccusativity as they did had. The referential properties of the implicit arguments of impersonal passive constructions.
Syntax, lexical categories, and morphology 1 chapter 1 syntax, lexical categories, and morphology 1. At the syntax lexical semantics interface, mit press, 1995. Language has often been characterized as a systematic correlation between certain types of. Paducheva decompositional semantics free download as powerpoint presentation. As a distinctive syntactic structure in mandarin chinese, the patientsubject construction psc is one of the most interesting but least wellunderstood structures in the language. Lexical semantics 4 free download as powerpoint presentation. Unaccusativity is an extended investigation into a. An introduction to the lexical semantics of predicative forms. Beth levin,malka rappaport hovav,samuel jay keyser. Demonstration of antecedent reactivation with the crossmodal priming paradigm.
Unaccusativity is an extended investigation into a set of linguistic phenomena that have received much attention over the last fifteen years. Hyogo university of teacher education unaccusativity. Scalarity and unaccusativity at the lexiconsyntax interface. At the syntax lexical semantics interface linguistic inquiry monographs by beth levin, malka rappaport hovav and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Grammar, comparative and general transitivity, semantics. At the syntaxlexical semantics interface linguistic inquiry monographs 9780262620949 by levin, beth and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. A case study of sason arabic faruk akkus yale university in the literature, cognate objects co, namely the objects which an intransitive verb can take, have been used as a diagnostics to differentiate between unergative and unaccusative verbs. At the syntaxlexical semantics interface, linguistic. Besides providing extensive support for david perlmutters hypothesis that unaccusativity is syntactically represented but semantically determined, this. Insights from cognitive neuropsychology, cognition on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands.
Pdf theories of lexical semantics download full pdf book. Cg 112 spring, 2006 outline and readings 5 zaenen, annie, unaccusativity in dutch. The relation between the meaning and the syntax of lexical items is among the more frustrating issues in linguistics. Scalarity and unaccusativity at the lexiconsyntax interface thesis submitted for the degree doctor of philosophy by joseph potashnik submitted to the senate of tel aviv university 31 october 2014. Reviewed by edwin williams, princeton university the most ambitious goal of work of this kind would be a linguistic theory in which different verb argument deployments would be fully predictable from. She is the coauthor with beth levin of unaccusativity. Unaccusativity is an extended investigation into a set of linguistic. Levin, beth and rappaport hovav, malka, unaccusativity. Variation from monolingual speakers was noticeable with the semantic classification of some verbs along the unaccusativity continuum sorace, 2000 as revealed in the spanish tasks. Besides providing extensive support for david perlmutters hypothesis that unaccusativity is syntactically represented but semantically determined, this monograph contributes significantly to the development of a theory of lexical semantic representation and to the elucidation of the mapping from lexical semantics to syntax. Predicative noun phrases and the theory of clause structure.
Unaccusative verbs in dutch and the syntaxsemantics interface. Citeseerx scientific documents that cite the following paper. Introduction unaccusativity introduced, approaches to unaccusativity, deep versus surface unaccusativity, assumptions about lexical representations. Polish psychological verbs at the lexicon syntax interface in crosslinguistic perspective. This book offers a comprehensive account of the history, structure, meaning and use of the psc. The subject of this study is break and bend verbs in isizulu, which can be classified as verbs of change of state. This page intentionally left blank exploring the syntaxsemantics interface language is a system of communication in. Unaccusativity, at the syntax lexical semantics interface. Full text views reflects the number of pdf downloads. He has published the semantics of locative prepositional phrases in english 1995, nary quantifiers and the.
Unaccusativity, at the syntaxlexical semantics interface. In chapters 3 and 4, the authors look closely at the lexical semantics syntax interface as it pertains to unaccusativity to provide evidence for semantic factors that determine the unaccusativity. Polish psychological verbs at the lexiconsyntax interface in crosslinguistic perspective. At the syntaxlexical semantics interface linguistic inquiry monographs beth levin, malka rappaport hovav on. At the syntaxlexical semantics interface mit press, 1995 and argument realization cambridge university press, 2005. At the syntaxlexical semantics interface linguistic. Levin, beth and malka rappaport hovav, unaccusativity. On the bilingual competence of spanish heritage speakers. This study examines the semantic as well as the syntactic analysis of these verbs of change of state in zulu. More on events, word meaning, and argument structure april 27. Scalarity and unaccusativity at the lexiconsyntax interface thesis submitted for the degree doctor of philosophy by joseph potashnik. Compre o livro unaccusativity at the syntaxlexical semantics interface na.
This introduction presents the main paradigms considered in the papers of this volume. Split intransitivity and the syntaxsemantics interface in turkish. Coreference processing and levels of analysis in objectrelative constructions. Do sentences with unaccusative verbs involve syntactic. In chapters 3 and 4, the authors look closely at the lexicalsemanticssyntax interface as it pertains to unaccusativity to provide evidence for semantic factors that determine the unaccusativity.
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