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Alexiadou, Artemis & Liliane Haegemann & Melita Stavrou. 2006. Noun Phrase in the Generative Perspective (Studies in Generative Grammar 71). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. xxii, 664 S.
(2009)
Die Syntax der nominalen Projektion, also der Nominalphrase (NP), gilt als ein klassisches Thema der Sprachwissenschaft, welches gleichzeitig aber auch sehr heterogen ist, was sich in der Literatur in oft völlig gegen-sätzlichen theoretischen Einsichten niederschlägt. Die vorliegende, über 650 Seiten umfassende Monographie untersucht die nominale Projektion und deren strukturelle Eigenschaften aus generativer Sicht. Es wird sprachvergleichend vorgegangen, wobei sich die Autorinnen dem ...
Aufsatz
Conceptual and grammatical characteristics of argument alternations: the case of decausative verbs
(2003)
In this paper the grammatical and conceptual properties of decausative verbs of the type The plate broke are explored from the viewpoint of a model of language production that systematically upholds the distinction between grammatical and extralinguistic information. In the constructions under consideration, an agentive entity — just like in passives — is suppressed by grammatical means. The first part of the paper centers around the question of whether an implicit entity can be derived from linguistic form, that is, ...
Teil eines Buches
Mediating between concepts and language - Processing structures
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2003)
One of the main functions of language is to abstract over complex non-verbal message structures. The language system generates highly compact linguistic material which, however, must still enable the recipient of the corresponding linear grammatical sequence to fully infer the intended message. To guarantee this a device is required which links concepts and grammar in a systematic fashion by negotiating the requirements of both the generalized linguistic structures and the underlying conceptual complexes. Typically, ...
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Generic rescue: argument alternations the monotonicity condition
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2013)
Generic interpretations as in “The tiger kills to survive” have often been observed to reconstitute the linguistic acceptability of certain verb argument structure modifications. But can the right context rescue everything? This paper investigates the impact a generic interpretation can have on three types of argument alternations: (i) the intransitive use of inherently telic verbs like “to kill”, (ii) the intransitive use of stative verbs like “to love”, and (iii) middle alternations like “it reads easily”. It will ...
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Argument-structural restrictions on word-formation patterns
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2015)
The implementation of argument-structural effects on word-formation is a vital aspect in modeling the lexical system and the interface between morphology and syntax. The current article provides an overview of theoretical perspectives in the field and presents analyses of structural principles holding in the domain. A number of test cases relating to fundamental operations, e.g., in compounding and nominalization are discussed, as well as specific conditions restricting the formation of morphologically complex words.
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Situationsargumente von Nicht-Köpfen: Verb-Nomen-Komposita im Zusammenspiel von Morphologie, Syntax und Pragmatik
(De Gruyter, 2015)
The current paper investigates German verb-noun compounds like Parkticket (‘park ticket’) and examines the structural and semantic visibility of the verbal modifier and, in particular, its situation variable. The latter will be analyzed as generically bound while pronominal access to this variable will be explained with the permeability of the Principle of Lexical Integrity. Several test criteria, like argument saturation and PRO control, lead to the assumption of a phrasal projection below the word level, which is ...