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Date: 25-Oct-2004
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Functional Constraints in Grammar: Kuno, Takami (Eds)

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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:26:45
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Functional Constraints in Grammar: Kuno, Takami (Eds)

Title: Functional Constraints in Grammar
Subtitle: On the unergative-unaccusative distinction
Series Title: Constructional Approaches to Language 1

Publication Year: 2004
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CAL%201

Editor: Susumu Kuno, Harvard University
Editor: Ken-ichi Takami, Tokyo Metropolitan University

Hardback: ISBN: 9027218218 Pages: x, 243 pp. Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN: 1588115550 Pages: x, 243 pp. Price: U.S. $ 119.00

Abstract:

This book examines in detail the acceptability status of sentences in the
following five English constructions, and elucidates the syntactic,
semantic, and functional requirements that the constructions must satisfy
in order to be appropriately used: There-Construction, (One's) Way
Construction, Cognate Object Construction, Pseudo-Passive Construction, and
Extraposition from Subject NPs. It has been argued in the frameworks of
Chomskyan generative grammar, relational grammar, conceptual semantics and
other syntactic theories that the acceptability of sentences in these
constructions can be accounted for by the unergative-unaccusative
distinction of intransitive verbs. However, this book shows through a wide
range of sentences that none of these constructions is sensitive to this
distinction. For each construction, it shows that acceptability status is
determined by a given sentence's semantic function as it interacts with
syntactic constraints (which are independent of the unergative-unaccusative
distinction), and with functional constraints that apply to it in its
discourse context.

Table of contents

Acknowledgement  ix

1. Introduction  1-29

2. The there-construction and unaccusativity  31-65

3. The way construction and unergativity
Co-authored with Karen Courtenay and Nan Decker 67-104

4. The cognate object construction and unergativity  105-135

5. The pseudo-passive construction and unergativity  137-168

6. Extraposition from subject NPs and unaccusativity  169-187

7. Conclusion  189-197

Notes  199-224

References  225-233

Name index  235

Subject index  237

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Functional & Systemic Ling
                     Linguistic Theories

Subject Language(s): English (Language Code: ENG)

Written In: English  (Language Code: ENG)

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