Functional Constraints in Grammar: On the unergative unaccusative distinctionJohn Benjamins Publishing, 2004/09/30 - 242 ページ This book examines in detail the acceptability status of sentences in the following five English constructions, and elucidates the syntactic, semantic, and functional requirements that the constructions must satisfy in order to be appropriately used: There-Construction, (One s) Way Construction, Cognate Object Construction, Pseudo-Passive Construction, and Extraposition from Subject NPs. It has been argued in the frameworks of Chomskyan generative grammar, relational grammar, conceptual semantics and other syntactic theories that the acceptability of sentences in these constructions can be accounted for by the unergative unaccusative distinction of intransitive verbs. However, this book shows through a wide range of sentences that none of these constructions is sensitive to this distinction. For each construction, it shows that acceptability status is determined by a given sentence's semantic function as it interacts with syntactic constraints (which are independent of the unergative unaccusative distinction), and with functional constraints that apply to it in its discourse context. |
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... subject referents continue, and activity verbs represent volitional acts of their subject referents that can be ... logical (lexical conceptual) structures of (32a—d) will be represented as in the following (for details, see Dowty (1979) ...
... subject referents continue, and activity verbs represent volitional acts of their subject referents that can be ... logical (lexical conceptual) structures of (32a—d) will be represented as in the following (for details, see Dowty (1979) ...
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... subject position to satisfy the Extended Projection Principle (Chomsky (1982)), given in (7):3 (7) Extended Projection Principle: Sentences must have subjects. On the other hand, the verbs in (2) are unergative and the logical subject ...
... subject position to satisfy the Extended Projection Principle (Chomsky (1982)), given in (7):3 (7) Extended Projection Principle: Sentences must have subjects. On the other hand, the verbs in (2) are unergative and the logical subject ...
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... logical subject in sentences such as (3a—c) and (4a—c) is assigned inherent partitive Case at D-structure. Hence, no ... (logical subject) (+ PP)'. Milsark (1974) has called this pattern the (inside verbal' there-construction, since the ...
... logical subject in sentences such as (3a—c) and (4a—c) is assigned inherent partitive Case at D-structure. Hence, no ... (logical subject) (+ PP)'. Milsark (1974) has called this pattern the (inside verbal' there-construction, since the ...
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... subject NP a grizzly bear violates the following Proper Binding Condition (Fiengo (1977)), since a grizzly bear has ... logical subject, base-generated at the object position, moves to the specifier position of IP to receive nominative ...
... subject NP a grizzly bear violates the following Proper Binding Condition (Fiengo (1977)), since a grizzly bear has ... logical subject, base-generated at the object position, moves to the specifier position of IP to receive nominative ...
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... logical subjects, and dissolve describes disappearance (rather than existence or appearance) of the referent of its logical subject. Hence, sentences (22a—c) are unacceptable, resulting in a violation of the 'verbs denoting existence or ...
... logical subjects, and dissolve describes disappearance (rather than existence or appearance) of the referent of its logical subject. Hence, sentences (22a—c) are unacceptable, resulting in a violation of the 'verbs denoting existence or ...
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3 The way construction and unergativity | 67 |
4 The cognate object construction and unergativity | 105 |
5 The pseudopassive construction and unergativity | 137 |
6 Extraposition from subject NPs and unaccusativity | 169 |
7 Conclusion | 189 |
Notes | 199 |
References | 225 |
Name index | 235 |
Subject index | 239 |
The series Constructional Approaches to Language | 243 |
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acceptability results acceptability status apple Mary argued assign accusative assumed Babe Ruth Bruce Davison Burzio Chapter characterization claim cognate object construction Constraint in 45 Construction Grammar contrast D-structure danced definite denoting existence derived describe difficulty direct object ergative ergative verbs existence or appearance extraposed Extraposition from Subject fact find first floor following examples following sentences Functional Constraint Goldberg grin grizzly bear inside verbal interpretation intransitive Iohn Kuno laughed Levin and Rappaport logical subject Mary nonvolitional events nouns object NP Observe the following ofthe one’s passive sentences Perlmutter 1978 Perlmutter and Postal predicts preposition Pseudo-Passive Construction pseudo-passive sentences Rappaport Hovav 1995 Relational Grammar satisfies screamed Section sentence results sentences involving shown smile speaker specifier position subject NP subject position surface subject syntactic Takami there-construction there-sentences transitive verbs Unaccusative Restriction unaccusative verbs unergative and unaccusative Unergative Restriction unergative verbs unergative—unaccusative distinction unusual manner verbs can appear volitional actions