The Verbal Domain

by D'alessandro, Roberta; Franco, Irene; Gallego, Angel J.

• ISBN13: 9780198767893
• ISBN10: 0198767897
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-05-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Roberta D'Alessandro is Professor at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, and Chair of Syntax and Language Variation at the same university; she is also an external member of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She specializes in syntactic microvariation in Italo-Romance, the syntax-PF interface, and syntactic change in contact. She is co-editor of the Open Generative Grammar series published by Language Science Press, and editor-in-chief of Brill's Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages/Romance series.

Irene Franco is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Romance Languages and Literature at Goethe Universitat Frankfurt, and is currently working on a project on quantification in Old Italian. Her main research interests are morphosyntactic diachronic change and variation, as well as comparative (Germanic-Romance) syntax. Her work has appeared in Isogloss, Rivista di Grammatica Generativa, and MIT Working Papers, and in edited volumes from OUP and John Benjamins.

Angel J. Gallego is Professor Agregat at the Departamento de Filologia Espanyola of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and a member of the Centre de Linguistica Teorica. His principal research interests and publications are in the areas of formal syntax and parametric variation (especially within Romance languages). He has published in journals such as Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Probus, and Theoretical Linguistics, and he is the author of Phase Theory (John Benjamins, 2010), and the editor of Phases. Developing the Framework (Mouton de Gruyter, 2012).

Table of Contents

Introduction: The verbal domain, Roberta D'Alessandro, Irene Franco, and Angel J. Gallego
Part I: Root and Verbalizer
1. The "bundling" hypothesis and the disparate functions of little v, Heidi Harley
2. Little v as a categorizing verbal head: Evidence from Greek, Phoevos Panagiotidis, Vassilios Spyropoulos, and Anthi Revithiadou
3. Agreement between arguments? Not really, Maria Polinsky, Nina Radkevich, and Marina Chumakina
4. On the division of labor between roots and functional structure, Artemis Alexiadou and Terje Lohndal
Part II: Voice
5. Voice, manners, and results in adjectival passives, Elena Anagnostopoulou
6. Romance and Greek medio-passives and the typology of Voice, Florian Schafer
7. The articulated v layer: Evidence from Tamil, Sandhya Sundaresan and Thomas McFadden
8. The features of the voice domain: Actives, passives, and restructuring, Susi Wurmbrand and Koji Shimamura
Part III: Event and Argument Structure
9. Omnipresent little v in Pazar Laz, Balkız Ozturk and Eser Erguvanlı Taylan
10. The event domain, Gillian Ramchand
11. The interpretation of external arguments, Jim Wood and Alec Marantz
References