Minor shelf wear ; This important contribution to linguistic theory presents a correspondence-based model of argument selection, building on and extending Dowty s proto-role theory. The authors propose two interrelated strategies syntagmatic and paradigmatic selection to explain how grammatical arguments are mapped from lexical semantics. The book includes detailed cross-linguistic case studies and is especially relevant for researchers and students interested in the syntax semantics interface, argument structure, and linking theory. ; 15.7x22.9x1.8cm; ix,197 pages.

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Title

Proto-Properties and Grammatical Encoding - Stanford Monographs in Linguistics - a Correspondence Theory of Argument Selection

Publisher

The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications

Publication Date

2001

Language

English

ISBN 10

1575861666

ISBN 13

9781575861661

Binding

Softcover

Edition

First Edition (?); (?).

Condition

Very Good

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This book develops a comprehensive proto-property theory of argument encoding based on the work of David Dowty (1989, 1991): such a theory is intended to cover much of the empirical ground of mapping/linking theories in identifying the principles of correspondence between the lexical semantics of predicators and the relational and case encodings of their arguments. In this theory the authors identify two basic strategies for the organization of lexical information (i.e., syntagmatic being the comparison of different entities in the same environment and paradigmatic being the comparison of single object in different environments) and demonstrate how these two strategies yield widespread patterns of regularity in the lexical information associated with predicators cross-linguistically. In particular, Ackerman and Moore consider the psych predicates, causatives, so-called 'dative subjects', and object encoding in Finnic.

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Farrell Ackerman is professor of linguistics and director of the Human Development Program at the University of California, San Diego.

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