[HPSG-L] Book about argument structure constructions (benefactive and resulative) and collaborative reading platform paperhive

[Stefan Müller]

Hi everybody,

The discussion started and there are already some comments by Remi van
Trijp and by Laura Michaelis. They are quite interesting since they
touch more general topics, for instance the question of whether we need
heads (in HPSG and SBCG) and the relation of SBCG to x-bar-theory.

Feel free to join!

This is the document on paperhive:

https://paperhive.org/documents/items/CDuBamUa0iWI

And here you can check for most recent contributions:

https://paperhive.org/documents/items/CDuBamUa0iWI/activity

Have fun! See you on paperhive. =:-)

Best wishes

	Stefan


Am 20.12.18 um 16:57 schrieb Stefan Müller:
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> Recently my new book (a short book rather than a lengthy paper) on
> argument structure constructions appeared in the series Conceptual
> Foundations of Language Science published by Language Science Press. It
> discusses a phrasal approach within LFG that uses glue semantics and
> inheritance to account for benefactives and for resultative
> constructions. I show why I believe that such phrasal approaches are not
> appropriate and why we lexicalists should stick to lexical analyses. I
> develop a lexical alternative in HPSG that captures cross-linguistic
> generalizations, accounts for both German and English and also can
> explain the interaction of benefactive and resultative constructions,
> which are possible in German.
> 
> The book is available here:
> 
> http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/163
> 
> We plan to feature the online reading/commenting platform paperhive and
> want to do this with my book. Ash Asudeh, Laura Michaelis, Remi van
> Trijp, Ida Toivonen, and Annie Zaenen will read the book online and
> maybe comment on it.
> 
> This is the book on paperhive
> 
> https://paperhive.org/documents/items/CDuBamUa0iWI
> 
> Remi already started to comment. And although the official discussion
> period is planned to be in January, I replied to some of the comments.
> 
> So, if you are interested, please join the discussion. Now or in January.
> 
> Best wishes and happy holidays and a good new year
> 
> 	Stefan
>