Functional Constraints in Grammar: On the unergative unaccusative distinction

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John 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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1 Introduction
1
2 The thereconstruction and unaccusativity
31
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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