Each verb in natural language is associated with a set of
arguments, which are not systematically predictable from the verb's
meaning and are realized syntactically as the projected sentence's
subject, direct object, etc. Babby puts forward the theory that
this set of arguments (the verb's 'argument structure') has a
universal hierarchical composition which directly determines the
sentence's case and grammatical relations. The structure is uniform
across language families and types, and this theory is supported by
the fact that the core grammatical relations within simple
sentences of all human languages are essentially identical. Babby
determines and empirically justifies the rigid hierarchical
organization of argument structure on which this theory rests. The
book uses examples taken primarily from Russian, a language whose
complex inflectional system, free word order, and lack of
obligatory determiners make it the typological polar opposite of
English.
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