Introducing arguments
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書誌事項
Introducing arguments
（Linguistic inquiry monographs / Samuel Jay Keyser, general editor, 49）
MIT Press, c2008
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Unchanged version of author's Ph.D. thesis--MIT, 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-153) and index
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: hardcover ISBN 9780262162548
内容説明
This concise work offers a compositional theory of verbal argument structure in natural languages that focuses on how arguments that are not "core" arguments of the verb (arguments that are not introduced by verbal roots themselves) are introduced into argument structures. Liina Pylkkanen shows that the type of argument structure variation that allows additional noncore arguments is a pervasive property of human language and that most languages have verbs that exhibit this behavior. It would be natural to hypothesize that the grammatical elements that allow for this variation are the same in different languages, but Pylkkanen, citing the differences between the inventories of verbs that allow additional arguments in English and Venda, shows the difficulties in this assumption. Either the noncore arguments are introduced by different elements with different distributions, she argues, or the introducing elements are the same and some other factor is responsible for the distributional difference.
Distinguishing between these two types of explanations and articulating the properties of argument-introducing elements is the essence of Pylkkanen's theory. Investigating the grammatical elements that allow the addition of noncore arguments, Pylkkanen argues that the introduction of additional arguments is largely carried by seven functional heads. Following Chomsky, she claims that these belong to a universal inventory of functional elements from which a particular language must make its selection. Cross-linguistic variation, she argues, has two sources: selection; and the way a language packages the selected elements into syntactic heads.
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: pbk ISBN 9780262662093
内容説明
A compositional theory of verbal argument structure that explores how "noncore" arguments are introduced into argument structures and examines cross-linguistic variation in introducing arguments.
This concise work offers a compositional theory of verbal argument structure in natural languages that focuses on how arguments that are not "core" arguments of the verb (arguments that are not introduced by verbal roots themselves) are introduced into argument structures. Liina Pylkkanen shows that the type of argument structure variation that allows additional noncore arguments is a pervasive property of human language and that most languages have verbs that exhibit this behavior. It would be natural to hypothesize that the grammatical elements that allow for this variation are the same in different languages, but Pylkkanen, citing the differences between the inventories of verbs that allow additional arguments in English and Venda, shows the difficulties in this assumption. Either the noncore arguments are introduced by different elements with different distributions, she argues, or the introducing elements are the same and some other factor is responsible for the distributional difference.
Distinguishing between these two types of explanations and articulating the properties of argument-introducing elements is the essence of Pylkkanen's theory. Investigating the grammatical elements that allow the addition of noncore arguments, Pylkkanen argues that the introduction of additional arguments is largely carried by seven functional heads. Following Chomsky, she claims that these belong to a universal inventory of functional elements from which a particular language must make its selection. Cross-linguistic variation, she argues, has two sources: selection; and the way a language packages the selected elements into syntactic heads.
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