Structuring the argument : multidisciplinary research on verb argument structure / edited by Asaf Bachrach ; Isabelle Roy, UMR 7023 Structure Formelle du Langage ; Linnaea Stockall, Queen Mary, University of London.
We investigate so-called causative psych nominalizations (CPNs), i.e., nominalizations of object experiencer (OE) verbs that realize non-agentive causers as external arguments. While they are ruled out in English (Grimshaw 1990; Iwata 1995; Pesetsky 1995) and have been suggested to be cross-linguist...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2014.
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| Series: | Language faculty and beyond ;
v. 10. |
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| Summary: | We investigate so-called causative psych nominalizations (CPNs), i.e., nominalizations of object experiencer (OE) verbs that realize non-agentive causers as external arguments. While they are ruled out in English (Grimshaw 1990; Iwata 1995; Pesetsky 1995) and have been suggested to be cross-linguistically banned (Landau 2010), we show that Romanian and Greek derive CPNs from the subject experiencer (SE) form of alternating OE verbs. We analyze them as nominalizations of the anticausative SE form of these verbs. Our results suggest a structural difference between Romanian/Greek and English psyc. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (213 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027270108 9027270104 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |