Novedad =?iso-8859-1?Q?bibliogr=E1fica?=:M. Sanz. Events and Predication. A New Approach to Syntactic Processing in English and Spanish. Amsterdam/Philaldelphia: John Benjamins

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                    Novedad bibliográfica:
    Montserrat Sanz. 2000. Events and Predication. A New
Approach to Syntactic Processing in English and Spanish.
Amsterdam/Philaldelphia: John Benjamins (Current Issues in
Linguistic Theory 207, ISBN: 1 58811 001X (Hardcover),
$66.00).
     De: Montserrat Sanz mailto:sanz at inst.kobe-cufs.ac.jp
                      Compra electrónica:
    https://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/boeken-order.cgi?1404
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                            Resumen

    Theories of event structure have proven the syntactic and
morphological consequences of event type in many languages,
showing that event plays a major role in the syntax/semantics
interface in Universal Grammar. Studies until now have
characterized this interface as a series of mapping rules from
aspectual properties of verbs onto grammatical function.

    This book presents an innovative characterization through
a theory of features of functional categories. The mapping
between event types and syntactic predicate types is explained
in connection to the functional categories that embed the
Aktionsart features of the event and those that concern
objects.

    The book offers an exploration of the syntactic issues of
event theory in relation to a theory of how interpretable
features shape the interface, and a minimalist analysis of
Aktionsart phenomena. As the book delves into the theoretical
issue of how parameters are characterized, it presents the
most comprehensive account to date of event type phenomena in
Spanish, an innovative analysis of the clitic SE and a
re-definition of unaccusativity.

    The theory is then applied to sentence processing
research, proposing alternative directions for the ongoing
issues in this
field.

                            Índice
Preface

Chapter 1: Preliminaries

1.1 Introduction
1.2. The syntax/semantics interface
1.2.1 From thematic roles to Aktionsart
1.2.2 Syntactic positions: A minimalist account
1.2.3 An interface puzzle: Unaccusatives
1.3 Aktionsart in minimal terms: A proposal
1.4 The present proposal and its coverage
1.4.1 Middle constructions
1.4.2 The resultative construction and verb-particle
combinations
1.4.3 Passives
1.4.4 Spanish transitive structures with se and
transitive/uncausative alternations 1.4.5 Differences between
unaccusatives in English and Spanish
1.4.6 Goal phrase delimitation in English and its absence in
Spanish
1.4.7 Corollary of this section
1.5 Action Types and Predicate Types
1.5.1 Action types
1.5.2 Mapping onto predicate types
1.6 The Framework
1.6.1 Goals and computation operations
1.6.2 Checking and eliminating features from the derivation
1.6.3 The structure of the VP
1.6.4 Objects
1.6.5 Summary of this section
1.7 Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 2: Transitivity and Aktionsart. Data from Spanish
2.1 Introduction
2.1.1 Accomplishment constructions with se in Spanish
2.1.2 The clitic se and other predicate types
2.2 Delimitedness of events
2.2.1 Incremental Themes (Dowty 1991)
2.2.2 Aspectual Roles (Tenny 1987, 1988, 1994)
2.2.3 Incremental Event Types (Filip 1993, 1996)
2.3 Spanish telic se in transitive construction
2.3.1 The properties of the construction
2.3.2 Previous accounts of transitive sentences with se
2.3.3 The properties of the clitic and its position
2.3.4 The object position in Spanish (Torrego 1998)
2.3.5 Summary of previous sections
2.3.6 Analysis of sentences with the telic clitic
2.4 Transitive/uncausative alternations
2.5 Unaccusatives with se
2.6 Accomplishment sentences without the clitic
2.6.1 Sentences with animate objects
2.6.2 Verbs of creation
2.7 Remaining questions
2.7.1 Verbs of inherently directed motion
2.7.2 Stative verbs
2.7.3 Verbs that require a preposition on their objects
2.7.4 Accomplishment interpretation of ambiguous sentences
2.8 Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 3: Transitivity and Aktionsart. Data from English
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Accomplishments vs. achievements: A review
3.3 The object position in English (Basilico 1998)
3.4 Telicity and measure in English
3.4.1 The resultative construction
3.4.2 Verb-particle combinations
3.4.3 Delimitation by goal phrases
3.4.4 Middle and uncausative constructions
3.5 Categorical predication and measure in English
3.6 Consequences of the analysis for the categorical and
thetic predications in telic and atelic constructions
3.6.1 Scope ambiguities
3.6.2 Ambiguity with frequency adverbs
3.6.3 There-constructions
3.7 Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 4: Unaccusatives and passives in English and Spanish
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Transitive achievements
4.3 Unaccusativity
4.3.1 Perlmutter's initial approach to unaccusativity
4.3.2 Burzio's generalization
4.3.3 Aktionsart properties of unaccusatives
4.4 Syntactic tests of unaccusativity
4.4.1 Italian
4.4.2 Dutch
4.4.3 Japanese
4.5 Unaccusative alternations
4.6 Unaccusatives in English
4.6.1 The locative inversion and the There-insertion
constructions
4.6.2 Alternatives to the view that there are unaccusatives in
English
4.7 Unaccusatives in Spanish
4.7.1 Past participles
4.7.2 Bare Noun Phrases
4.7.3 Nominal derivations
4.8 Passives
4.9 Checking interpretable features of lexical items
4.10 Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 5: On the role of syntax in comprehension: A
cross-linguistics study
5.1 Introduction
5.2 NP-trace experiments
5.3 Problems with previous studies of NP-trace
5.4 The copy theory of movement
5.4.1 Reconstruction facts
5.4.2 The Numeration
5.5 Justification of the technique
5.6. Experiments on unaccusatives in English and Spanish
5.6.1 Materials
5.6.2 Procedure
5.6.3 Subjects ...
5.6.4 Results
5.6.4.1 Experiment 1
5.6.4.2 Discussion of Experiment
5.6.4.3 Experiment 2
5.6.4.4 Discussion of Experiment 2
5.6.5 General discussion
5.7 Garden path effects
5.7.1 A new turn of the screw
5.7.2 Some categorical and terminological concerns
5.7.3 Reduced relatives and measuring
5.8. Some preliminary application of the theory to garden-path
effects
5.9 Summary and Conclusions

Appendix
References
Index of subjects

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