Unaccusativity: At the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface

by Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin

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.

Unaccusativity is an extended investigation into a set of linguistic phenomena that have received much attention over...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262620944
• ISBN13: 9780262620949
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher