Unaccusativity?

[Stefan Müller]

Dear Ivan,

The German crowd usually takes some feature that points to either the
underlying subject or the underlying object. Representations for
unacusative verbs differ from those of unergative verbs by either not
having a pointer to an underlying subject or letting the pointer to the
underlying object point to the logical subject.

The object approach is taken by Kathol, 1991; Kathol, 1994; Pollard,
1994; Müller, 1999.

The subject designation builds on work by Haider in the framework of GB.
Subject designation is done by Heinz & Matiasek, 1994; Lebeth, 1994;
Kathol, 1994, Sec 7.3.3; Gunkel, 1999, Müller, 2002.

There are also approaches that point to both the underlying subject and
the underlying object: Ryu, 1997; Gunkel, 2003.

Except the most recent approach by Gunkel, these approaches are
discussed in more detail in Müller, 2002.

If people know of other papers, it would be great if they posted to the
list or if you could post a summary.

Best wishes

	Stefan


@Article{Gunkel99a,
   author      =	{Lutz Gunkel},
   title	      =	{Causatives in {German}},
   journal     =	{Theoretical Linguistics},
   volume      =	25,
   number      =	{2/3},
   pages	      =	{133--159},
   year	      =	1999
}

@Book{Gunkel2003b,
   author      =	{Lutz Gunkel},
   title	      =	{{Infinitheit, Passiv und Kausativkonstruktionen im
Deutschen}},
   series      =	{Studien zur deutschen Grammatik},
   number      =	67,
   price	      =	{64 EUR},
   publisher   =	{Stauffenburg Verlag},
   address     =	{T{\"u}bingen},
   year	      =	2003
}


@InCollection{HM94a,
   author      =	{Wolfgang Heinz and Johannes Matiasek},
   editor      =	{John Nerbonne and Klaus Netter and Carl J. Pollard},
   booktitle   =	{German in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar},
   title	      =	{Argument Structure and Case Assignment in {German}},
   chapter     =	6,
   pages	      =	{199--236},
   publisher   =	{CSLI Publications},
   address     =	{Stanford},
   series      =	{CSLI Lecture Notes},
   number      =	46,
   year	      =	1994
}

@InProceedings{Kathol91a,
   author      =	{Andreas Kathol},
   title	      =	{Verbal and Adjectival Passives in {German}},
   booktitle   =	{Papers from the Third Student Conference in Linguistics},
   editor      =	{Jonathan David Bobaljik and Tony Bures},
   pages	      =	{115--130},
   address     =	{Cambridge, Massachusetts},
   publisher   =	{MIT},
   series      =	mitwpl,
   volume      =	14,
   year	      =	1991
}

@InCollection{Kathol94a,
   author      =	{Andreas Kathol},
   editor      =	{John Nerbonne and Klaus Netter and Carl J. Pollard},
   booktitle   =	{German in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar},
   title	      =	{Passives without Lexical Rules},
   chapter     =	7,
   pages	      =	{237--272},
   publisher   =	cslip,
   series      =	{CSLI Lecture Notes},
   number      =	46,
   address     =	{Stanford},
   year	      =	1994
}

@TechReport{Lebeth94,
   author      =	{Kai Lebeth},
   title	      =	{{Morphosyntaktischer Strukturaufbau -- Die Generierung
komplexer Verben im
		HPSG-Lexikon eines Sprachproduktionssystems}},
   institution =	{Uni\-ver\-si\-t{\"a}t Hamburg, Fachbereich Informatik},
   type	      =	{Hamburger Arbeitspapiere zur Sprachproduktion -- IV},
   number      =	{Arbeitspapier \Nr 16},
   year	      =	1994
}


@Book{Mueller99a,
   author      =	{Stefan M{\"u}ller},
   title	      =	{{Deutsche Syntax deklarativ. Head-Driven Phrase
Structure Grammar f\"ur das
		Deutsche}},
   publisher   =	{Max Niemeyer Verlag},
   address     =	{T\"ubingen},
   series      =	{Linguistische Arbeiten},
   number      =	394,
   note	      =	{\url{http://www.cl.uni-bremen.de/~stefan/Pub/hpsg.html}},
   year	      =	"1999"
}

@Book{Mueller2002b,
   author      =	{Stefan M{\"u}ller},
   title	      =	{Complex Predicates: Verbal Complexes, Resultative
Constructions, and Particle Verbs in {German}},
   series      =	{Studies in Constraint"=Based Lexicalism},
   number      =	13,
   publisher   =	cslip,
   address     =	{Stanford},
   note	      =
{\url{http://www.cl.uni-bremen.de/~stefan/Pub/complex.html}},
   year	      =	2002
}

@InCollection{Pollard94a,
   author      =	{Carl J. Pollard},
   editor      =	{John Nerbonne and Klaus Netter and Carl J. Pollard},
   booktitle   =	{German in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar},
   title	      =	{Toward a Unified Account of Passive in {German}},
   chapter     =	8,
   pages	      =	{273--296},
   publisher   =	cslip,
   series      =	{CSLI Lecture Notes},
   number      =	46,
   address     =	{Stanford},
   year	      =	1994
}

@TechReport{Ryu97a,
   author      =	{Byong-Rae Ryu},
   title	      =	{{Argumentstruktur und Linking im constraint"=basierten
Lexikon: Ein
		Zwei-Stufen-Modell für eine HPSG"=Analyse von Ergativität und
Passivierung im
		Deutschen}},
   type	      =	"Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340",
   number      =	{\Nr 124},
   institution =	{Eberhard-Karls-Uni\-ver\-si\-t{\"a}t},
   address     =	{T\"ubingen},
   year	      =	1997
}

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Stefan Müller

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