External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations: A Layering Approach

by Artemis Alexiadou, Florian Schäfer, Elena Anagnostopoulou, et al.

Book Overview

This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective. It focuses particularly on the causative/anticausative alternation, which the authors take to be a Voice alternation, and the formation of adjectival participles. The authors use data principally from English, German, and Greek to demonstrate that the presence of anticausative morphology does not have any truth-conditional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199571953
• ISBN13: 9780199571956
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.1"