Thematic Structure

Its Role in Grammar

Iggy M. Roca

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9783110134063
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110872613
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Thematic conditions on syntactic structures: evidence from locative applicatives
• 1. Background: benefactive and instrumental applicatives
• 2. The problem of locative applicatives
• 2.1. Chichewa
• 2.2. Kinyarwanda and Sesotho
• 3. The role of the applied affix
• 4. Contrast 1: Chichewa vs. Sesotho
• 5. Contrast 2: Kinyarwanda vs. Chichewa/Sesotho
• 6. Chichewa benefactive applicatives revisited
• 7. Implications
• Notes
• References
• Morphology, semantics and argument structure
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Lexical-conceptual structure
• 3. Morphological operations on LCS
• 4. Verbal prefixation and LCS
• 5. Middle verbs
• 6. Conclusions
• Notes
• References
• Deverbal compounds and the external argument
• 1. English deverbal compounds
• 2. Italian deverbal compounds
• 3. Italian and English
• 4. English deverbal compounds revisited
• 5. Summary
• Notes
• References
• Sentence accents and argument structure
• 1. Bresnan’s account: the Nuclear Stress Rule
• 2. The generalization
• 2.1 Difficulty of perceiving nonfinal accents
• 2.2. Two PP’s in one argument
• 3. Exploiting the generalization
• 3.1 Multiword predicates
• 3.2. Embedded clauses
• 4. Conclusion
• Appendix
• Notes
• References
• The syntactic character of thematic structure
• 0. Introduction
• 1. The double object construction
• 2. Conflation as incorporation
• 3. Other patterns of conflation
• 4. Lexical representations
• 5. D-structure representations
• 6. Problems of method and the determination of Lexical Relational Structures
• 7. Conflations and the English middle construction
• 8. Conflation from the inner subject position
• 9. The relational structures of location and locatum verbs
• 10. Functional categories in the lexicon
• 11. Some final remarks
• Notes
• References
• Aspect and Theta Theory
• 1. The problem
• 2. Resultatives
• 2.1. Small clauses
• 2.2. Resultatives
• 2.3. Conclusion
• 3. Licensing
• 3.1. The theory of modification
• 3.2. Aspect and Aktionsart
• 3.3. Licensing Resultatives
• 3.4. Accomplishments
• 4. Morphologically complex accomplishments
• 5. Morphologically simplex verbs
• 6. Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Raising in syntax, semantics and cognition
• 1. Introduction and overview
• 2. Raising patterns in syntax
• 3. Raising patterns in semantics
• 4. The function of raising
• 5. Raising patterns in cognition
• 6. Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Secondary predication as a diagnostic of underlying structure in Pama-Nyungan languages
• 1. Part-whole constructions in Warlpiri
• 2. Stative predicates in Warlpiri
• 3. Secondary predicates in Arrernte-type languages
• 4. Lexical structure of verbs
• 5. “Perception” predicates
• 6. Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• The lexical semantics of verbs of motion: the perspective from unaccusativity
• 1. Verbs of motion: a problem for the unaccusative hypothesis?
• 2. Three classes of verbs of motion
• 3. Correlations of meaning components with unaccusativity
• 3.1. Arrive verbs
• 3.2. Manner of motion verbs
• 3.3. Run verbs with directional phrases
• 3.4. Summary
• 4. Implications for lexical semantic representation
• 5. Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• The projection principle(s): a reexamination
• 1. A review
• 2. The projection principle
• 3. The projection principle and the extended projection principle
• References
• Circumstantial complements and direct objects in the Romance languages: configuration, Case, and thematic structure
• 1. A traditional view of the problem
• 2. Some tests for “Objecthood”
• 2.1. Commutation tests
• 2.2. Passive constructions
• 2.3. Causative constructions
• 2.4. Auxiliary selection
• 2.5. Extraction
• 2.6. Cliticization
• 3. A configurational account
• 4. Case and Theta-Role assignment
• 5. Some further data
• 6. Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Author index
• Subject index