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The Unaccusativity Puzzle - Explorations of the Syntax-Lexicon Interface (Paperback, New)
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The Unaccusativity Puzzle - Explorations of the Syntax-Lexicon Interface (Paperback, New)
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 5
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The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study
of the complex properties of verb classes. The Unaccusative
Hypothesis, first formulated in 1978, claimed that there are two
classes of intransitive verbs, the unaccusative (Jill arrived) and
the unergative or agentive (Jill sings). The hypothesis has
provided a rich context for debating whether syntactic behaviour is
semantically or lexically determined, the consequence of syntactic
context, or a combination of these factors. No consensus has been
reached. This book combines new approaches to the subject with
several papers that have achieved a significant status even though
formally unpublished. Among the issues the authors address are: the
determination of the unaccusative class of verbs, the problem of
unaccusativity diagnostics, the implications of special morphology
for the structural representation of unaccusatives and the status
of the external thematic role, the properties guiding the
unergative versus unaccusative distinction in acquisition, and the
properties of second-language lexicon.
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