Extra argumentality - affectees, landmarks, and voice

This article investigates sentences with additional core arguments of a special type in three languages, viz. German, English, and Mandarin. These additional arguments, called extra arguments in the article, form a crosslinguistically homogeneous class by virtue of their structural and semantic similarities, with so-called "raised possessors" forming just a sub-group among them. Structurally, extra arguments may not be the most deeply embedded arguments in a sentence. Semantically, their referents are felt to stand in a specific relation to the referent of the/a more deeply embedded argument. There are two major thematic relations that are instantiated by extra arguments, viz. affectees and landmarks. These thematic role notions are justified in the context of and partly in contrast to, Dowty's (1991) proto-role approach. An affectee combines proto-agent with proto-patient properties in eventualities that are construed as involving causation. A landmark is a ground with respect to some spatial configuration denoted by the predication at hand, but a figure at the highest level of gestalt partitioning that is relevant in a clause. Thereby, both affectees and landmarks are inherently hybrid categories. The account of extra argumentality is couched in a neo-Davidsonian event semantics in the spirit of Kratzer (1996, 2003), and voice heads are assumed to introduce affectee arguments and landmark arguments right above VP

Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory Essays in Honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud

Essays by leading theoretical linguists--including Noam Chomsky, B. Elan Dresher, Richard Kayne, Howard Lasnik, Morris Halle, Norbert Hornstein, Henk van Riemsdijk, and Edwin Williams--reflect on Jean-Roger Vergnaud's influence in the field and discuss current theoretical issues.Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Letter to Noam Chomsky and Howard Lasnik on ''Filters and Control,'' April 17, 1977 -- 2 On the Development of Case Theory: Triumphs and Challenges -- 3 Uninterpretable Features Are Incompatible in Morphology with Other Minimalist Postulates -- 4 Parallel Nominal and Verbal Projections -- 5 Clause Structure and the Syntax of Verbless Sentences -- 6 On Phases -- 7 Phasal Agreement and Reconstruction -- 8 Superiority, Reconstruction, and Islands -- 9 Identity Avoidance: OCP Effects in Swiss Relatives -- 10 Ellipsis and Missing Objects -- 11 Tokenism and Identity in Anaphora -- 12 Some Preliminary Comparative Remarks on French and Italian Definite Articles -- 13 Reduplication -- 14 The Logic of Contrast -- IndexEssays by leading theoretical linguists--including Noam Chomsky, B. Elan Dresher, Richard Kayne, Howard Lasnik, Morris Halle, Norbert Hornstein, Henk van Riemsdijk, and Edwin Williams--reflect on Jean-Roger Vergnaud's influence in the field and discuss current theoretical issues.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries