Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Purchase Benefits
What is included with this book?
General Preface | p. vii |
Acknowledgements | p. viii |
List of Figures and Tables | p. ix |
Abbreviations | p. x |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Where We're Going | p. 1 |
Locality Theory and Extraction from Adjuncts: A Potted History | p. 6 |
Further Puzzles | p. 29 |
The Plan | p. 37 |
The Structure of Events | |
The Variable Size of Events | p. 43 |
Variable Pragmatic Coarse-Graining | p. 46 |
The Directness of Direct Causation | p. 51 |
Aspectual Classes | p. 55 |
Summary | p. 67 |
Single Events from Multiple Verb Phrases and the Role of Agentivity | p. 68 |
Events and VP-Coordination | p. 68 |
Relations other than Direct Causation | p. 73 |
Agentivity and Event Size | p. 79 |
Planning and Enablement | p. 82 |
Agentivity, Aspectual Classes, and the Progressive | p. 98 |
Structures Built from Events | p. 104 |
Introduction | p. 104 |
The Problems | p. 105 |
Dealing with the Problems | p. 109 |
Events and Intervals in Syntax | p. 111 |
Events and Locality | |
Where We Stand | p. 121 |
Extraction from Adjuncts | p. 129 |
Rationale Clauses | p. 130 |
Prepositional Participial Adjuncts | p. 135 |
Bare Present Participial Adjuncts | p. 145 |
Conclusion | p. 167 |
Appendix: Preposition Stranding in Adjuncts | p. 169 |
Extraction from Complement Clauses and the Effect of Tense | p. 174 |
On the Impermeability of Tensed Adjuncts | p. 175 |
Why Tensed Complements are Different | p. 178 |
Factive Islands and Event Structure | p. 179 |
Cyclic Determination of Event Structure | p. 188 |
What Has Happened to the CED? | p. 192 |
Summary | p. 205 |
Architectural Issues | p. 207 |
Introduction | p. 207 |
Could We Syntacticize the Single Event Grouping Condition? | p. 209 |
Integrating Syntactic and Semantic Constraints on Movement | p. 229 |
Conclusion | p. 238 |
Conclusion | p. 240 |
References | p. 246 |
Author Index | p. 256 |
Subject Index | p. 259 |
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.