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This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in
transitivity alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective. It
focuses particularly on the causative/anticausative alternation,
which the authors take to be a Voice alternation, and the formation
of adjectival participles. The authors use data principally from
English, German, and Greek to demonstrate that the presence of
anticausative morphology does not have any truth-conditional
effects, but that marked anticausatives involve more structure than
their unmarked counterparts. This morphology is therefore argued to
be associated with a semantically inert Voice head that the authors
call 'expletive Voice'. The authors also propose that passive
formation is not identical across languages, and that the
distinction between target vs. result state participles is crucial
in understanding the contribution of Voice in adjectival passives.
The book provides the tools required to investigate the
morphosyntactic structure of verbs and participles, and to identify
the properties of verbal alternations across languages. It will be
of interest to theoretical linguists from graduate level upwards,
particularly those specializing in morphosyntax and typology.
This book investigates the nature and properties of roots, the core
elements of word meaning. In particular, chapters examine the
interaction of roots with syntactic structure, and the role of
their semantic and morpho-phonological properties in that
interaction. Issues addressed in the book include the semantics and
phonology of roots in isolation and in context; the categorial
specification of roots; and the role of phases in word formation.
Internationally recognized scholars approach these topics from a
variety of theoretical backgrounds, drawing on data from languages
including German, Hebrew, and Modern Greek. The book will be of
interest to linguistics students and researchers of all theoretical
persuasions from graduate level upwards.
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