Date: 15-Jul-2008 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: The Syntax of (Anti-)Causatives: Schäfer E-mail this message to a friend
Title: The Syntax of (Anti-)Causatives
Subtitle: External arguments in change-of-state contexts
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 126
Published: 2008
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Author: Florian Schäfer
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027255099 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 120.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027255099 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 180.00
Abstract:
This book develops an approach to the causative alternation that assumes syntactic event decomposition and a configurational theta theory. It is couched within the framework of the Minimalist Program and, especially, within Distributed Morphology. Central to the work is the syntax and semantics of canonical external arguments of causative verbs as well as of oblique causers and causative PPs in the context of anticausative verbs in different languages such as Germanic, Romance, Balkan, and Caucasian languages. The book also develops a new account of the origin and nature of the morphological marking which is often found on anticausatives across languages. The main claim is that this morphology is a reflex of a syntactic way to prohibit the assignment of the external theta role. Moreover, the book develops an account about the origin of the implicit agent in generic middles which often bear the same morphology as marked anticausatives.
Linguistic Field(s):
Linguistic Theories
Morphology
Syntax
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