26.1217, Books: External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations: Alexiadou, Anagnostopoulou, Schaefer

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Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 13:43:49
From: Helena Palmer [helena.palmer at oup.com]
Subject: External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations: Alexiadou, Anagnostopoulou, Schaefer

 


Title: External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations 
Subtitle: A Layering Approach 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199571949.do 


Author: Artemis Alexiadou
Author: Elena Anagnostopoulou
Author: Florian Schaefer

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199571949 Pages: 248 Price: U.K. £ 65
Paperback: ISBN:  9780199571956 Pages: 248 Price: U.K. £ 24.99


Abstract:

This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in
transitivity alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective. It focuses
particularly on the causative/anticausative alternation, which the authors
take to be a Voice alternation, and the formation of adjectival participles.
The authors use data principally from English, German, and Greek to
demonstrate that the presence of anticausative morphology does not have any
truth-conditional effects, but that marked anticausatives involve more
structure than their unmarked counterparts. This morphology is therefore
argued to be associated with a semantically inert Voice head that the authors
call 'expletive Voice'. The authors also propose that passive formation is not
identical across languages, and that the distinction between target vs. result
state participles is crucial in understanding the contribution of Voice in
adjectival passives.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     German (deu)
                     Greek, Modern (ell)


Written In: English  (eng)

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