Proto-Properties and Grammatical Encoding

A Correspondence Theory of Argument Selection

Farrell Ackerman, John Moore

198 pages, parution le 01/09/2001

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This book develops a comprehensive proto-property theory of argument encoding based on the work of David Dowty (1989,1991): such a theory is intended to cover much of the empirical ground of mapping/linking theories in identifying the principles of correspondence between the lexical semantics of predicators and the relational and case encodings of their arguments. In this theory the authors identify two basic strategies for the organization of lexical information (i.e., syntagmatic being the comparison of different entities in the same environment and paradigmatic being the comparison of single object in different environments) and demonstrate how these two strategies yield widespread patterns of regularity in the lexical information associated with predicators cross-linguistically. In particular, Ackerman and Moore consider the psych predicates, causatives, so-called "dative subjects", and object encoding in Finnic.

Contents

Aknowledgments
Abreviations
Introduction 1

1 Basic Linking Problems 1

Overview 5
Correspondence Theory 10

2 Grammatical Theory and Semantic Roles 15

1 Grammatically Relevant Subsets of Features 15
2 On Characterizing Semantic Roles 18

3 A Proto-Role Proposal: Syntagmatic Argument Selection 27

1 Proto-Roles and Proto-Properties 27
2 The Syntagmatic Argument Selection Principle 34
3 Extending the Inventory of Proto-Properties 37
4 Entailments and Valence 42

4 Paradigmatic Argument selection 61

1 Two Types of Argument Selection 61
2 Psych-Predicates and Croft's Generalization 62
3 Causatives: Interacting Selection Principles 71
4 Extensions of the Paradigmatic Selection Principles 80

5 Bounding Entities 83

1 Telicity and Transitivity 83
2 'Bounding Entity' as a Thematic Proto-Property 89
3 Conclusions 137

6 Subject Alternations 141

1 Agent-Centered Alternations 141
2 Inversion Nominals 142
3 Dative Subjects 157

7 Conclusion 169

1 Syntagmatic vs. Paradigmatic Selection 169
2 Identifying Proto-Properties 170
3 Extending the Paradigm 171
4 Paradigmatic Comparison of Proto-Property Sets 173
5 Argument Selection and Linking Theories 175
Bibliography 179
Index 191

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Éditeur(s)	CSLI
Auteur(s)	Farrell Ackerman, John Moore
Parution	01/09/2001
Nb. de pages	198
Format	15 x 22,8
Couverture	Broché
Poids	295g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781575861661

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