Thematic Relations
- 1st Edition - February 27, 2016
- Editor: Wendy Wilkins
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 4 6 0 3 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 5 7 4 1 - 9
Syntax and Semantics, Volume 21: Thematic Relations provides information pertinent to thematic relations, which focus both on what sematic roles are expressible in the grammar and… Read more
Syntax and Semantics, Volume 21: Thematic Relations provides information pertinent to thematic relations, which focus both on what sematic roles are expressible in the grammar and how these roles come to be associated with noun phrases. This book presents the interaction of components of the language faculty and other aspects of cognition. Organized into 13 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the semantic relations involved in verb–argument structure. This text then examines the predicate-argument representations, which have come to figure prominently in all current generative theories of syntax. Other chapters consider the generalizations about thematic relations that are most insightfully captured at the level of syntax of at the level of semantics. This book discusses as well the importance of thematic roles to the grammar. The final chapter deals with the central role of thematic roles in language comprehension. This book is a valuable resource for linguists, syntacticians, and semanticists with an active involvement in research on natural language.
Preface
Introduction
1. Background
2. Issues Addressed by Contributors
What to Do with θ-Roles
1. Introduction
2. The Motivations for PASs
3. Syntactically Relevant Lexical Representations
4. Where Do θ-Roles Come From?
5. The Locative Alternation
6. A Predicate Decomposition Approach to the Locative Alternation
7. The With Phrase
8. Lexical Decomposition Versus Features
9. Predicate Argument Structures Once Again
10. Conclusion
Autonomy, Predication, and Thematic Relations
1. Introduction
2. Autonomy
3. Predication
4. R-Structure
5. Control
6. Nonthematic Predication
7. Summary
Toward a Nongrammatical Account of Thematic Roles
1. The Diacritic Use of θ-Roles
2. Are Thematic Roles in the World or the Grammar?
3. Nishigauchi's Hierarchy of Relations in Control
4. Cases of Obligatory Control
5. Conclusion
Thematic Relations in Control
1. Introduction
2. Thematic Roles as Verb Entailments
3. CP versus θCP
4. Syntax in Control
5. Thematic Relations in the Grammar
Complex Predicates and θ-Theory
1. Introduction
2. θ-Marking in Complex Predicates: Three Problems
3. The Phrasal Node θ-Frame and Promotion
4. Restrictions on Promotion
5. Double Object Constructions
Multiple θ-Role Assignment in Choctaw
1. Introduction
2. The Choctaw Agreement System
3. Verbal Suppletion
4. Auxiliary Selection
5. Multiple θ-Roles and the θ-Criterion
6. Conclusion
Inheritance
1. Introduction
2. Lexical Levels: An Inadequate Solution
3. The θ-Hierarchy and the Inheritance Principle
4. Uniformity
5. Absorption
6. Summary
Thematic Restrictions on Derived Nominals
1. Introduction
2. English Transitive Nominals
3. Single-Argument Transitive Nominals
4. Feature Approach to Thematic Relations
5. Polish Derived Nominals
6. Conclusions
Thematic Relations and Case Linking in Russian
1. Introduction
2. Russian Reflexive Controllers
3. -sja Constructions
4. Conclusion
Thematic Structure and Reflexivization
1. Introduction
2. R-Structure
3. Role Assignment and Conditions on R-Structure
4. External Arguments
5. The Thematic Hierarchy
6. Conclusion
Toward a Lexical Representation of Warlpiri Verbs
1. Introduction
2. Grammatical Functions
3. Case Marking: NPs and Person-Number AUX Clitics
4. Semantic Decomposition and Lexical Conceptual Structure
5. Relation Between LCS and PAS
6. Relation Between PAS and Syntactic Component
7. Conclusion
The Feature + Affected and the Formation of the Passive
1. Introduction
2. The Possibilities
3. Semantic Bootstrapping and the Feature + Affected
4. The Grammaticalization of Passives
5. Passives, Analytic Priority, and the Structure of the Grammar
6. Conclusion
Thematic Roles and Language Comprehension
1. Introduction
2. Background and Motivation
3. Representational Assumptions
4. Empirical Predictions
5. Concluding Remarks
References
Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 27, 2016
- Language: English