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External arguments in transitivity alternations : a layering approach
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ISBN: 9780199571956 9780199571949 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective. The empirical focus is the causative/anticausative alternation and the formation of (adjectival) Passives. The bulk of the discussion, couched within Distributed Morphology, is devoted to the properties of the (anti-)causative alternation, which the text takes to be a Voice alternation. It offers a detailed discussion of the morphological realization of anticausatives across languages, and argues that marked anticausatives involve expletive Voice and are not reflexive predicates. In the discussion of Passives, the book argues that the fact that Passives in German and English—unlike their counterparts in Greek, where Passives are syncretic with anticausatives—are morphologically unique reflects the fact that they are also structurally unique. Passives in English and German involve Passive Voice, while they involve Middle Voice in Greek. The text furthermore shows that the distinction between target and resultant state participles is an important one in order to understand the contribution of Voice in adjectival Passives. Importantly, the study provided tools to probe into the morpho-syntactic structure of verbs and participles, and to identify the properties of verbal alternations across languages.

Unaccusativity : at the syntax-lexical semantics interface
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ISBN: 0262620944 0262121859 9780262620949 Year: 1995 Volume: 26 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. London MIT Press

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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.

Studies in transitivity
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ISBN: 0126135150 9780126135152 Year: 1982 Volume: 15 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Academic press,

Language, ideology and point of view
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ISBN: 0415071070 0415071062 9780415071079 9780203136867 9781134911042 9781134911080 9781134911097 9780415071062 Year: 1994 Publisher: London: Routledge,

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This systematic introduction to the concept of point of view in language explores the ways in which point of view intersects with and is shaped by ideology. It specifically focuses on the way in which speakers and writers linguistically encode their beliefs, interests and biases in a wide range of media. The book draws on an extensive array of linguistic theories and frameworks and each chapter includes a self-contained introduction to a particular topic in linguistics, allowing easy reference. The author uses examples from a variety of literary and non-literary text types such as, narrative fiction, advertisements and newspaper reports. This book offers an integrated programme of language-study and textual analysis that will be of interest to students of linguistics, stylistics, English Language, English as a foreign language, literature, and communication studies.

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