Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
- Series page
- The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Background
- Part II Modern generative approaches to the study of sentence structure
- Part III Syntactic structures
- 9 Argument structureand argument structure alternations
- 10 The syntax of predication
- 11 Lexical categories and (extended) projection
- 12 The functional structure of the sentence, and cartography
- 13 Adverbial and adjectival modification
- Part IV Syntactic processes: their nature, locality, and motivation
- Part V Syntax and the internal interfaces
- Part VI Syntax and the external interfaces
- References
- Index of language names
- Index
9 - Argument structureand argument structure alternations
from Part III - Syntactic structures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
- Series page
- The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Background
- Part II Modern generative approaches to the study of sentence structure
- Part III Syntactic structures
- 9 Argument structureand argument structure alternations
- 10 The syntax of predication
- 11 Lexical categories and (extended) projection
- 12 The functional structure of the sentence, and cartography
- 13 Adverbial and adjectival modification
- Part IV Syntactic processes: their nature, locality, and motivation
- Part V Syntax and the internal interfaces
- Part VI Syntax and the external interfaces
- References
- Index of language names
- Index
Summary
Historically, the most important results in argument structure have come from those studying the properties of the Lexicon as a module of grammar. The second section of this chapter gives the perspective on the issues from the vantage point of the Lexicon, i.e. the practical problem of deciding how much and what kind of information is necessary for the listing of verbal lexical entries. The third section gives a morphosyntactic overview of the patterns in argument structure related to Subject selection. The chapter reviews the correlations with one other important interacting syntactic phenomenon, namely case. The relationship between argument structure and the architectural interfaces are explored. The chapter discusses the interaction with discourse and cognitive facts, and the modular interaction between the Lexicon and the syntactic computation. The chapter ends with a plea for linguists to revisit the serious and still unresolved problem of 'selection'.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax , pp. 265 - 321Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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