Syntax, Lexical Semantics, and Event Structure

Edited by Malka Rappaport Hovav, Edit Doron, and Ivy Sichel

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Cutting-edge research on a subject of great current interest
Theoretically coherent
Focusses on key issues at the syntax-semantics interface
Suitable for use in graduate courses

Syntax, Lexical Semantics, and Event Structure

Edited by Malka Rappaport Hovav, Edit Doron, and Ivy Sichel

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Description

This book focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain and its interaction with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arguments, and modifiers. Leading scholars explore the division of labour between syntax, compositional semantics, and lexical semantics in the encoding of event structure, encompassing event participants and the temporal properties associated with events. They examine the interface between event structure and the systems with which it interacts, including the interface between event structure and the syntactic realization of arguments and modifiers. Deploying a variety of frameworks and theoretical perspectives they consider central issues and questions in the field, among them whether argument-structure is specified in the lexical entries of verbs or syntactically constructed so that syntactic position determines thematic status; whether the hierarchical structure evidenced in argument structure find parallels in sign language; should the relation between members of an alternation pair, such as the causative-inchoative alternation, be understood lexically or derivationally; and the role of syntactic category in determining the configuration of argument structure.

Syntax, Lexical Semantics, and Event Structure

Edited by Malka Rappaport Hovav, Edit Doron, and Ivy Sichel

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

1. Introduction, Malka Rappaport Hovav, Edit Doron, and Ivy Sichel
Part I Lexical Representation
2. Reflections on Manner/Result Complementarity, Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth levin
3. Verbs, Constructions, and Semantic Frames, Adele E. Goldberg
4. Contact and Other Results, Nomi Erteschik-Shir and Tova Rapoport
5. The Lexical Encoding of Idioms, Martin Everaert
Part II Argument Structure and the Compositional Construction of Predicates
6. The Emergence of Argument Structure in Two New Sign Languages, Irit Meir
7. Animacy in Blackfoot Implications for Event Structure and Clause Structure, Elizabeth Ritter and Sara Thomas Rosen
8. Lexicon Versus Syntax Evidence From Morphological Causatives, Julia Horvath and Tal Siloni
9. On the Morphosyntax of (Anti-)Causative Verbs, Artemis Alexiadou
10. Saturated Adjectives, Reified Properties, Idan Landau
Part III Syntactic and Semantic Composition of Event Structure
11. Incremental homegeneity and the Semantics of Aspectual for-phrases, Fred Landman and Susan Rothstein
12. Event Measurement and Containment, Anita Mittwoch
13. Morphological Aspect and the Function and Distribution of Cognate Objects Across Languages, Geoffrey Horrocks and melita Stavrou
14. Locales, Hagit Borer
15. Modal and Temporal Aspects of Habituality, Nora Boneh and Edit Doron
References
Index

Syntax, Lexical Semantics, and Event Structure

Edited by Malka Rappaport Hovav, Edit Doron, and Ivy Sichel

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Author Information

Malka Rappaport Hovav teaches in the Department of Linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her books include Argument Realization and Unaccusativity, written along with Beth Levin.

Edit Doron teaches in the Department of Linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has written widely on the syntax and semantics of English and Semitic languages.

Ivy Sichel teaches in the Department of Linguistics and the Cognitive Science Program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her interests include comparative syntax, the structure of noun phrases, and the syntax-semantics interface.

Contributors:

Malka Rappaport Hovav, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Edit Doron, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ivy Sichel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Artemis Alexiadou, University of Stuttgart
Nora Boneh, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hagit Borer, University of Southern California
Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Ben Gurion University
Martin Everaert, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics
Adele E. Goldberg, Princeton University
Geoffrey Horrocks, Cambridge University
Judith Horvath, Tel Aviv University
Idan Landau, Ben Gurion University
Fred Landman, Tel Aviv University
Beth Levin, Stanford University
Irit Meir, University of Haifa
Anita Mittwoch, The hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tova Rapoport, Ben Gurion University
Elizabeth Ritter, University of Calgary
Sara Thomas Rosen, University of Kansas
Susan Rothstein, Bar Ilan University
Tal Siloni, Tel Aviv University
Melita Stavrou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki