Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-302) and indexes.
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Aspect and the syntax of argument structure / Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser -- How do verbs get their names? Demonimal verbs, manner incorporation, and the ontology of verb roots in English / Heidi Harley -- Path predicates / Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport -- Tense, person, and transitivity / Jacqueline Guéron -- Complex aspectual structure in Hindi/Urdu / Miriam Butt and Gillian Ramchand -- The aspect of agency / Edit Doron -- Agents and causes in Malagasy and Tagalog / Lisa Travis -- Event structure and morphosyntax in Navajo / Carlota S. Smith -- Constructions, lexical semantics, and the correspondence principle : accounting for generalizations and subregularities in the realization of arguments / Adele E. Goldberg -- Unspecified arguments in episodic and habitual sentences / Anita Mittwoch -- Resultatives under the event argument homomorphism model of telicity / Stephen Wechsler -- Change of state verbs : implications for theories of argument projection / Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This work focuses on issues at the lexicon-syntax interface. It presents innovative analyses of theoretical issues of aspectual interpretation in a variety of languages. The authors address various questions in the field.
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Title
Syntax of aspect.
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9780199280445
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Aspect.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Syntax.
Lexicology.
Aspect (Linguistique)
Lexicologie.
Syntaxe.
Aspect (taalkunde)
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Aspect.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Syntax.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Syntax.