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University of Rochester, USA
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University of Massachusetts
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University of Tubingen Scarsdale, New York
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SYNTAX and SEMANTICS
VOLUME 38
The End of Argument Structure?
Marı´a Cristina Cuervo
University of Toronto, Canada
Yves Roberge
University of Toronto, Canada
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CONTENTS
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS vii
CHAPTER 1 REMARKS ON ARGUMENT STRUCTURE
Marı´a Cristina Cuervo and Yves Roberge 1
CHAPTER 2 ON THE ADJECTIVAL COMPONENT OF
CHANGE OF STATE VERBS IN SPANISH
Grant Armstrong 13
CHAPTER 3 ‘‘OBLIQUENESS’’ AS A COMPONENT OF
ARGUMENT STRUCTURE IN AMHARIC
Mark Baker 43
CHAPTER 4 THE ANTIPASSIVE AND ITS RELATION
TO SCALAR STRUCTURE
David Basilico 75
CHAPTER 5 SOME STRUCTURAL ANALOGIES
BETWEEN EXISTENTIAL INTERPRETATION AND
TELICITY
E. Matthew Husband 105
CHAPTER 6 EXTERNAL ARGUMENT-INTRODUCING
HEADS: VOICE AND APPL
Kyumin Kim 131
CHAPTER 7 TOWARD THE END OF ARGUMENT
STRUCTURE
Terje Lohndal 155
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CHAPTER 8 A NOTE ON APPLICATIVES
Tatjana Marvin 185
CHAPTER 9 THE MANNER/RESULT
COMPLEMENTARITY REVISITED: A SYNTACTIC
APPROACH
Jaume Mateu and Vı´ctor Acedo-Matella´n 209
CHAPTER10 SYNCRETISMAS PF-REPAIR:THE CASE
OF SE-INSERTION IN SPANISH
Mercedes Pujalte and Andre´s Saab 229
CHAPTER 11 ARGUMENTS FROM THE ROOT VS.
ARGUMENTS FROM THE SYNTAX
Lisa Travis 261
SUBJECT INDEX 293
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
V´ıctor Acedo-Matella´n Universitat Auto`noma de Barcelona, Spain
Grant Armstrong University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Mark Baker Rutgers University, USA
David Basilico University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Marı´a Cristina Cuervo University of Toronto, Canada
E. Matthew Husband University of South Carolina, USA
Kyumin Kim University of Toronto, Canada
Terje Lohndal University of Maryland, USA
Tatjana Marvin University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Jaume Mateu Universitat Auto`noma de Barcelona, Spain
Mercedes Pujalte CONICET, Argentina and University of
Groningen, The Netherlands
Yves Roberge University of Toronto, Canada
Andre´s Saab Leiden University, The Netherlands and
University of Comahue, Argentina
Lisa Travis McGill University, Canada
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REMARKS ON ARGUMENT STRUCTURE
Marı´a Cristina Cuervo and Yves Roberge
1. INTRODUCTION
This volume explores a basic but central question that drives much of the
current research in formal syntax. Simply put, this question asks where the
variouscomponentsusedtocreateaclausecomefrom.Anequallysimpleway
to answer the question is to say that all those parts come from the lexicon.
Lexicalitemsarethusdrawnfromthelexicon,mergedwithoneanotheranda
clause is formed. Despite the availability of widely differing and competing
views of grammar, this basic characterization remains at the heart of most
approaches. But the consensus ends here, mainly because the various paths
that can then be followed lead to incompatible and wildly divergent conclu-
sions on the nature of linguistic representations. For instance, although we
know that lexical items are drawn from the lexicon, the nature of the mecha-
nisms by which the participants in an event come to occupy their structural
positionsandacquiretheir interpretation remainsan openquestion.This area
of linguistic research has been investigated in the last few decades within a
certain domain called argument structure (AS) and, within the generative
framework, there are two competing approaches (with variants). A long-
standing approach is based on the assumption that it is the lexical meaning
of a verb that determines, albeit indirectly, the basic properties of sentence
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