The Unaccusativity Puzzle: Explorations of the Syntax-Lexicon Interface

by Artemis Alexiadou

Book Overview

The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. The Unaccusative Hypothesis has provided a rich context for debating whether syntactic behavior is semantically or lexically determined, the consequence of syntactic context, or a combination of these factors. No consensus has been reached. This book combines new approaches to the subject with several papers that have achieved a significant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199257655
• ISBN13: 9780199257652
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"