Smita Joshi's Ph.D. dissertation on-line

[Farrell Ackerman]

that's great that joshi's thesis is web-accessible now! thanks, joan.
for those who are interested in a family of approaches similar to joshi's
and distinct from works standardly cited in the lmt literature there
is other literature that may also be interesting:
these proposals tend to rely on
some substantive notion of dowtyian proto-properties (rather than,
say, on lexical conceptual structures or event structures)
and tend to distinguish between different types of lexical operations
reflecting
what Simpson 1983 (her thesis) refers to as SEMANTIC REDUNDANCY RULES
for meaning changing operations with correlative function changes
versus RELATION CHANGING RULES for operations that simply re-assign function
w/o meaning change. some of the work tends to get paid less attention
than it should because it fits in less obviously than other work within
standard lmt: such, for example in my opinion, is t. mohanan's thesis.

i provide some relevant references, mostly
from the short bibliography joan and i wrote up a few years ago: i'd
be interested in finding more references, since it should be evident
from the embarrassing self-references below that i'm personally interested
in the topic:  i'm sure that i've neglected several relevant things
and i apologize beforehand.  please think of this my contribution to a
list that needs to be completed.  hope everyone is well, farrell

Ackerman, Farrell. 1990. Locative alternation vs. locative inversion. In
Aaron Halpern, editor, Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics, volume 9, pages 1--13, Stanford, CA. CSLI Publications.

Ackerman, Farrell. 1992. Complex predicates and morpholexical relatedness:
locative alternation in Hungarian. In Ivan Sag and Anna Szabolcsi, editors,
Lexical Matters. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA, pages 55--83. CSLI
Lecture Notes, number 24.

Ackerman, Farrell and John Moore. Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions
of causee encoding. Linguistics and Philosophy. 1999.

Ackerman, Farrell and John Moore. Proto-properties and argument encoding: A
correspondence theory of argument selection. Monographs in Linguistic
Theory. CSLI Publications. In press.

Blevins, Jim. 2001.  Passive and impersonals.  Cambridge University Ms.
http://www.rceal.cam.ac.uk/staff/jblevins.html#pubs

Dubinsky, Stanley amd Silvester Ron Simango. 1996. Passive and stative in
Chichewa: Evidence for modular distinctions in grammar. Language 72.4:
749-781.

Kibort, Anna. 2001.  The passive and passive-like constructions: A
contrastive study of
English and Polish with particular reference to impersonal constructions.
University of
Cambridge dissertation.

Markantonatou, Stella.1993. The Syntax of Modern Greek NPs with a Deverbal
Head. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Essex. A copy of the thesis can be
obtained from the University of Essex Albert Sloman Library:
http://libwww.essex.ac.uk/.

Markantonatou, Stella. 1995. Modern Greek deverbal nominals: an LMT
approach. Journal of Linguistics, 31:267--299.

Mohanan, Tara. Argument Structure in Hindi. 1994. CSLI Dissertations in
Linguistics.

Sadler, Louisa and Andrew Spencer. 1998.  Morphology and argument
structure.  In A. Spencer and
A. Zwicky eds. The Handbook of Morphology.   Blackwells Publishers.

Simpson, Jane. 1991. Warlpiri Morphology and Syntax: A Lexicalist Approach.
D. Reidel, Dordrecht.

Zaenen, Annie. 1994. Unaccusativity in Dutch: Integrating syntax and
lexical semantics. In James Pustejovsky, editor, Semantics and the Lexicon.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pages 129--161.