Unaccusativity

At the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface

By: Beth Levin, Malka Rappaport Hovav

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"Unaccusativity" is an extended investigation into a set of linguistic phenomena that have received much attention over the last fifteen years. Besides providing extensive support for David Perlmutter's hypothesis that unaccusativity is syntactically represented but semantically determined, this monograph contributes significantly to the development of a theory of lexical semantic representation and to the elucidation of the mapping from lexical semantics to syntax. Perlmutter's Unaccusative Hypothesis proposes that there are two classes of intransitive verbs--unergatives and unaccusatives--each associated with a distinct syntactic configuration. "Unaccusativity" begins by isolating the semantic factors that determine whether a verb will be unaccusative or unergative through a careful examination of the behavior of intransitive verbs from a range of semantic classes in diverse syntactic constructions. Notable are the extensive discussions of verbs of motion, verbs of emission, and various types of verbs of change of state. The authors then introduce rules that determine the syntactic expression of the arguments of the verbs investigated and examine the interactions among them. The proper treatment of verbs that systematically show multiple meanings--and hence variable classification as unaccusative or unergative--is also considered. In the final chapter, the authors argue that the distribution of locative inversion, a purported unaccusative diagnostic, is determined instead by discourse considerations. "Linguistic Inquiry" Monograph No. 26

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Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Unaccusativity Introduced	p. 2
Approaches to Unaccusativity	p. 4
Deep versus Surface Unaccusativity	p. 17
Assumptions about Lexical Representations	p. 20
The Anatomy of a Diagnostic: The Resultative Construction	p. 33
The Distribution of Resultative Phrases	p. 34
The Syntax of the Resultative Construction	p. 41
Semantic Restrictions on the Resultative Construction	p. 55
Alternative Accounts of the Resultative Construction	p. 62
The Causative Alternation: A Probe into Lexical Semantics and Argument Structure	p. 79
A Causative Analysis of Alternating Unaccusative Verbs	p. 82
A Closer Look at the Causative Alternation	p. 89
Verbs of Existence and Appearance	p. 119
The Linking of Arguments	p. 135
The Linking Rules	p. 135
Ordering the Linking Rules	p. 158
Comparison with Other Approaches	p. 166
Verbs with Multiple Meanings	p. 179
Rule-Governed Variable Behavior	p. 182
Consequences for Lexical Representation	p. 205
Variable Behavior That Is Not Rule-Governed	p. 208
The Problem of Locative Inversion	p. 215
Locative Inversion: An Introduction	p. 218
The Verbs Found in Locative Inversion	p. 220
The Discourse Function of Locative Inversion	p. 228
Evidence from Various Verb Classes	p. 232
Unergative Verbs in Locative Inversion	p. 251
The Syntax of Locative Inversion: Is an Unaccusative Analysis Necessary?	p. 260
An Alternative Account	p. 271
The Larger Picture	p. 274
Afterword	p. 279
Appendix A Verb Classes and Their Members	p. 281
Appendix B Verbs Found in the Locative Inversion Construction	p. 285
Notes	p. 287
References	p. 305
Sources of Examples	p. 323
Index	p. 329
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