Lexical Categories and Argument Structure. A study with reference to Sakha

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Utrecht: LOT, 2005. - 480 p.Historical PreludePānini Plato and Aristotle The Stoics Dionysius Thrax Latin grammarians: Varro and Priscian A summary: from Plato to Priscian Further historical developments IntroductionLexical categories: Features versus configurations Lexical categories: The generative background Lexicon versus Syntax Two alternative approaches to argument structure The extended proposal The proposal in a nutshell Structure of the dissertation Decomposing Lexical Categories in SakhaThe inventory of roots and suffixes Against bare roots Derivation: Lexicon versus syntax Deriving nouns in the lexicon and syntax Deriving adjectives in the lexicon and syntax Concluding remarks Nouns in SakhaPossession Nominal compounds: The lexicon/syntax division Baker’s (2003) criterion of identity Nouns as arguments Concluding remarks Adjectives in SakhaPredicationTense and the three types of predicates Embedded predication and the obligatoriness of buol ‘be’ with nonfinite nominal predicates Extractions out of predicates: the nominal/adjectival/verbal asymmetry Attributive modification Adverbial modification The use of adjectives as arguments Impersonal subjects Concluding remarks Causatives and UnaccusativesCausative/unaccusative alternationsVerb-based derivation Causativization Causativization in Distributed Morphology Concluding remarks Decomposing Accusative CaseAccusative case in Theta system Thematic accusative in Sakha: NP-arguments Unaccusatives: Accusative case reduction and morphological marking Reflexives: Lexical bundling Inalienable possession reflexives and benefactives Lexical and syntactic passives Reciprocals Double accusative in causatives Double accusative and the part-whole relationship Accusative subjects in Sakha Syntactic approaches to Case Denominal VerbsRecapitulating Hale and Keyser (1993, 1998, 2000) Denominal LAA-verbs Denominal verbs, arity operations and accusative case Denominal verbs ending in suffixes other than –LAA Unergative verbal roots and unergative verbs as √-suffix combinations Conclusions AppendicesBound roots in Sakha Root words in Sakha Word formation in Sakha Causative/unaccusative alternation in Sakha n-marking in Sakha References Samenvatting in het nederlandsAcknowledgements