Syntax, Lexical Semantics, and Event Structure
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This book focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain and its interaction with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arguments, and modifiers. Leading scholars explore the division of labour between syntax, compositional semantics, and lexical semantics in the encoding of event structure, encompassing event participants and the temporal properties associated with events. They examine the interface between event structure and the systems with which it interacts, including the interface between event structure and the syntactic realization of arguments and modifiers. Deploying a variety of frameworks and theoretical perspectives they consider central issues and questions in the field, among them whether argument-structure is specified in the lexical entries of verbs or syntactically constructed so that syntactic position determines thematic status; whether the hierarchical structure evidenced in argument structure find parallels in sign language; should the relation between members of an alternation pair, such as the causative-inchoative alternation, be understood lexically or derivationally; and the role of syntactic category in determining the configuration of argument structure.
1. Introduction, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Edit Doron, and Ivy SichelPart I Lexical Representation 2. Reflections on Manner/Result Complementarity, Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth levin3. Verbs, Constructions, and Semantic Frames, Adele E. Goldberg4. Contact and Other Results, Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport5. The Lexical Encoding of Idioms, Martin EveraertPart II Argument Structure and the Compositional Construction of Predicates 6. The Emergence of Argument Structure in Two New Sign Languages, Irit Meir7. Animacy in Blackfoot Implications for Event Structure and Clause Structure, Elizabeth Ritter and Sara Thomas Rosen8. Lexicon Versus Syntax Evidence From Morphological Causatives, Julia Horvath and Tal Siloni9. On the Morphosyntax of (Anti-)Causative Verbs, Artemis Alexiadou10. Saturated Adjectives, Reified Properties, Idan LandauPart III Syntactic and Semantic Composition of Event Structure 11. Incremental homegeneity and the Semantics of Aspectual for-phrases, Fred Landman and Susan Rothstein12. Event Measurement and Containment, Anita Mittwoch13. Morphological Aspect and the Function and Distribution of Cognate Objects Across Languages, Geoffrey Horrocks and melita Stavrou14. Locales, Hagit Borer15. Modal and Temporal Aspects of Habituality, Nora Boneh and Edit DoronReferences Index
