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Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations: A cross-linguistic perspective

By Nerea Madariaga (eds.) , Maia Duguine , Susana Huidobro

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
2010
ISBN
9027255415, 9789027255419
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4213507 bytes)
Series
Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today
Pages
360\361
Time added
2016-05-10 22:50:34
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Description

The topic of this collection is argument structure. The fourteen chapters in this book are divided into four parts: Semantic and Syntactic Properties of Event Structure; A Cartographic View on Argument Structure; Syntactic Heads Involved in Argument Structure; and Argument Structure in Language Acquisition. Rigorous theoretical analyses are combined with empirical work on specific aspects of argument structure. The book brings together authors working in different linguistic fields (semantics, syntax, and language acquisition), who explore new findings as well as more established data, but then from new theoretical perspectives. The contributions propose cartographic views of argument structure, as opposed to minimalistic proposals of a binary template model for argument structure, in order to optimally account for various syntactic and semantic facts, as well as data derived from wider cross-linguistic perspectives.

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