The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. The Unaccusative Hypothesis, first formulated in 1978, claimed that there are two classes of intransitive verbs, the unaccusative (Jill arrived) and the unergative or agentive (Jill sings). The hypothesis has provided a rich context for ...
Surveying noun phrases and their syntax, the book offers a theoretically oriented, comparative study in which they examine basic aspects of noun projection. The discussion includes the following topics: The DP hypothesis, the status of D in languages without determiners, demonstratives, the role of classifiers, the morphosyntactic features ...
This text contains 13 studies on various aspects of Greek syntax. In recent years, the study of Greek has become important for the development of generative theory. The various contributions to this volume demonstrate how much the field of Greek syntax has grown both in range and depth. The topics investigated include the phrase structure of ...
This volume contains contributions dealing with the syntax, morphology, semantics and diachronic development of the Perfect and the components it is built on across languages. The text brings these aspects together, working towards a comprehensive theory of the Perfect which takes into consideration the interfaces between the various components of ...
A collection of articles presenting generative analyses dealing with topics in syntactic theory, such as clitics, word order, scrambling, directionality, and movement. Data used is drawn from a number of typologically diverse languages - Arabic, Berber, Dutch, Gaelic, and Greek.
The volume presents a collection of papers of recent generative work on Modern Greek morpho-syntax.The book is divided into three parts. Part I of the book deals with argument alternations, part II with clitics and part III with the syntax and semantics of free relatives.The book will be interesting for scholars working on Greek but also in ...
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