14.3229, Books: Morph/Syntax/Semantics: Alexiadou et al (eds)

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Subject: 14.3229, Books: Morph/Syntax/Semantics: Alexiadou et al (eds)

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Date:  Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:58:14 -0500 (EST)
From:  tom.perridge at oup.com
Subject:  The Unaccusativity Puzzle: Alexiadou, Anagnostopoulou, Everaert (eds)

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Date:  Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:58:14 -0500 (EST)
From:  tom.perridge at oup.com
Subject:  The Unaccusativity Puzzle: Alexiadou, Anagnostopoulou, Everaert (eds)



Title: The Unaccusativity Puzzle
Subtitle: Explorations of the Syntax-Lexicon Interface
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
			
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup-usa.org/,
	    http://www.oup.co.uk	
			
Book URL: http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-925765-5

Editor: Artemis Alexiadou, University of Potsdam
Editor: Elena Anagnostopoulou, University of Crete
Editor: Martin Everaert, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics

Hardback: ISBN: 0199257647, Pages: 320, Price: £70.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0199257655, Pages: 320, Price: £25.00
			
Abstract:
			
The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of
the complex properties of verb classes. The Unaccusative Hypothesis,
first formulated in 1978, claimed that there are two classes of
intransitive verbs, the unaccusative (Jill arrived) and the unergative
or agentive (Jill sings). The hypothesis has provided a rich context
for debating whether syntactic behaviour 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significant status even though formally unpublished. Among the issues
the authors address are: the determination of the unaccusative class
of verbs, the problem of unaccusativity diagnostics, the implications
of special morphology for the structural representation of
unaccusatives and the status of the external thematic role, the
properties guiding the unergative versus unaccusative distinction in
acquisition, and the properties of second-language lexicon.
			
Lingfield(s):   Language Acquisition
		Morphology
		Semantics
		Syntax
			
Written In: English (Language Code: English)

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