Depending on domain variation and different syntactic adjoining positions, ziji shows various surface readings, though the availability of readings is affected by context. The assumption that this formmeaning correspondence is mediated by syntax allows the parallel compositional construction of the form and the meaning of a verb from the forms and the meanings of its root and template. Using a twoalternativeforcedchoice procedure, children were asked to decide which of two displayseach showing the same characters engaged in the same action, but with roles reversedwas a better match for an unfamiliar use of a novel verb. A new, deductive approach to the syntaxsemantics interface integrates two mature and successful lines of research. Despite the variety of verb meanings, linguistic research on their syntax and semantics has shown that they can be categorized into a finite and surprisingly small number of event types. 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. 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.
It presents a unified analysis of south slavic and english auxiliaries and accounts for the distribution of south slavic clitic clusters. Auxiliary selection and the semantics of unaccusativity. Citeseerx scientific documents that cite the following paper. Structured argument structure, and the distinction. This introduction presents the main paradigms considered in the papers of this volume.
Domains and causep in a unified semantics of chinese. Semantics and syntax in lexical functional grammar the. A constructional model of the german applicative pattern. A 5min childrens cartoon was divided into a series of clips and accompanied by music. A semantics for unaccusatives and its syntactic consequences. Unaccusativity is an extended investigation into a set of linguistic phenomena thathave received much attention over the last fifteen years. Thomson ck 2003 unaccusative verb production in agrammatic aphasia. At the syntaxlexical semantics interface, linguistic inquiry monograph 26, mit press, cambridge, ma. Paducheva decompositional semantics free download as powerpoint presentation.
It argues that english lacks the psych causative alternation due to a combination of factors that have been pointed out independently in the literature, but not discussed in the context of the literature on the causative alternation in the nonpsych domain. Pdf theories of lexical semantics download full pdf. 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. Syntax, lexical categories, and morphology 1 chapter 1 syntax, lexical categories, and morphology 1. Unaccusative verbs in dutch and the syntax semantics interface. Acquisition of english verb transitivity by native speakers of japanese tomonori nagano cuny graduate center acquisitionofenglishverbtransitivitybynativespeakersofjapanese. Journal of linguistics has as its goal to publish articles that make a clear contribution to current debate in all branches of theoretical linguistics.
Beth levin,malka rappaport hovav,samuel jay keyser. The analysis moves much minor crosslinguistic variation out of the syntax into the lexicon and the level of phonological form. She completedherphdcum laude atutrechtuniversity, under thejointsupervision of tanya reinhart and eric reuland. 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. 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. This paper discusses the absence of the causative alternation with psych predicates in english from a comparative perspective.
Introducing parallel pattern matching analysis ppma. Besides providing extensive support for david perlmutters hypothesis that unaccusativity is syntactically represented but semantically determined, this monograph contributes. I would like to say a special thank you to my colleagues, aya meltzerasscher. 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. Structured argument structure, and the distinction between the primary and the secondary unaccusativity in hpsg byongrae ryu dept. On the bilingual competence of spanish heritage speakers. Paducheva decompositional semantics semantics verb.
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. Predicative noun phrases and the theory of clause structure. A unified semantics of chinese adverbial ziji self is proposed for its three exclusive readings. Voice morphology in the causativeinchoative alternation. This introduction to and overview of the glue approach is the first book to bring together the research of the major contributors to the field. Levin, beth and rappaport hovav, malka, unaccusativity. Semitic templates systematically encode two dimensions of verb meaning. More recently, research in the psycholinguistics of language acquisition and processing has emphasized the relevance of event type. The syntaxsemantics interface results indicated that participants were over twice as likely to reject sentences such as 68 than any of the control sentences 19% versus 7%, 8%, and 9%, and significantly more likely to reject these sentences at the onset of. The editors have provided an excellent introduction pp. Scalarity and unaccusativity at the lexiconsyntax interface.
Insights from cognitive neuropsychology, cognition on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. The interface hypothesis ih was put forward by sorace and colleagues as an attempt to account for patterns of nonconvergence and residual optionality found at very advanced stages of adult second l2acquisition. Language has often been characterized as a systematic correlation between certain types of. The wider implication of these findings is that the conceptual fluidity of. Unaccusative verbs in dutch and the syntaxsemantics interface. The research reported here supports and amplifies zobl proposal, based on a grammaticality judgement task and a.
Zobl discussed inappropriate passive morphology be and the past participle in the english writing of l2 learners, linking its occurrence to the class of unaccusative verbs and proposing that learners subsume unaccusatives under the syntactic rule for passive formation. Standing at the intersection between syntax, lexical and clausal semantics and morphology, it has been. Unaccusativity is an extended investigation into a set of linguistic. The papers represent a gamut of theoretical approaches, but the majority are couched in the chomskyan tradition. The paper offers a theoretical characterization of the middle voice as distinct from the passive voice, and addresses the crosslinguistic morphological variation in realizing these two nonactive voices in different classes of languages, represented by hebrew, greek and english. Read how verbs and nonverbal categories navigate the syntaxsemantics interface. Argument structure and the representation of abstract. Marijana marelj is an assistant professor of linguistics at utrecht university.
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