The Unaccusativity Puzzle Explorations of the Syntax-Lexicon Interface

by Alexiadou, Artemis; Anagnostopoulou, Elena; Everaert, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780199257652
• ISBN10: 0199257655
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. The Unaccusative Hypothesis has provided a rich context for debating whether syntactic behavior 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combines new approaches to the subject with several papers that have achieved a significant status, though formally unpublished.

Table of Contents

General Preface	vii
Abbreviations	viii
Contributors	xi
Introduction	1	(268)
ARTEMIS ALEXIADOU, ELENA ANAGNOSTOPOULOU, AND MARTIN EVERAERT
1. A Semantics for Unaccusatives and its Syntactic Consequences	22	(38)
GENNARO CHIERCHIA
2. Unaccusativity as Telicity Checking	60	(24)
ANGELIEK VAN HOUT
3. Unergative Adjectives and Psych Verbs	84	(30)
HANS BENNIS
4. Voice Morphology in the Causative-Inchoative Alternation: Evidence for a Non-Unified Structural Analysis of Unaccusatives	114	(23)
ARTEMIS ALEXIADOU AND ELENA ANAGNOSTOPOULOU
5. Unaccusative Syntax and Verbal Alternations	137	(22)
DAVID EMBICK
6. Against an Unaccusative Analysis of Reflexives	159	(22)
TANYA REINHART AND TAL SILONI
7. Unaccusatives and Anticausatives in German	181	(26)
MARKUS STEINBACH
8. Syntactic Unaccusativity in Russian	207	(36)
MAAIKE SCHOORLEMMER
9. Gradience at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface: Evidence from Auxiliary Selection and Implications for Unaccusativity	243	(26)
ANTONELLA SORACE
10. Unaccusativiry in Saramaccan: The Syntax of Resultatives	269	(19)
TONJES VEENSTRA
11. The Grammar Machine	288	(44)
HAGIT BORER
12. Acquiring Unaccusativity: A Cross-Linguistic Look	332	(23)
JANET RANDALL, ANGELIEK VAN HOUT, JURGEN WEISSENBORN, AND HARALD BAAYEN
References	355	(16)
Index	371