Arguments and Structure: Studies on the Architecture of the Sentence

432 Pages·2004·1.14 MB·English

by  Teun Hoekstra

Arguments and Structure
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Studies in Generative Grammar 67
Editors
Henk van Riemsdijk
Jan Koster
Harry van der Hulst
Mouton de Gruyter
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Teun Hoekstra
Arguments and Structure
Studies on the Architecture of the Sentence
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Marcel den Dikken
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Contents
Preface vii
Teun Hoekstra’s bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
I. Argument structure
Possession and transitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The indirect object: its status and place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Categories and arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
The active-passive configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Verbal affixation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
II. T-chains
Why Kaatje was not heard sing a song (with Hans Bennis) . . . . . . . . . 125
T-chains and auxiliaries (with Jacqueline Guéron) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Clitics in Romance and the study of head-movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
ECP, tense and islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
III. The morphosyntax of nominal and verbal constituents
Bracketing paradoxes do not exist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
(with Harry van der Hulst and Frans van der Putten)
The nominal infinitive (with Pim Wehrmann) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Parallels between nominal and verbal projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
IV. Small clauses
Complex verbs (with Monic Lansu and Marion Westerduin) . . . . . . . . 295
Small clauses everywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Preface
This book contains fourteen articles (co-authored) by the Dutch generative
linguist Teun Hoekstra. In 1998, when he died at the age of 45, Teun was
widely considered to be one of the leading syntacticians in the field. This
volume confirms that indeed he was.
In selecting the papers to be included in this volume, we tried to do jus-
tice to both the depth and the breadth of Teun’s work. As to the breadth,
Teun has made important contributions to the development of theoretical
insights into such diverse topics as: argument structure, complementation,
transitivity, predication, small clause theory, tense, lexical decomposition,
nominalizations, bracketing paradoxes, etc. This book contains papers rep-
resentative of all these subjects. The only topic that Teun worked on that is
entirely missing from this volume is child language (for no other reasons
than limitations of space).
As to the depth, all papers in this volume are ground breaking in one
way or another. What is more, despite the fact that some of these papers are
10 to 20 years old, and were ground breaking at the time, they are still highly
relevant to current theorizing. Teun’s views on tense (10 years old), on the
relation between active and passive voice (15 years old) and on resultatives
(20 years old) are by no means outdated.
With a few exceptions, the articles included in this volume are previously
unpublished or were published in less accessible places or less accessible
languages (such as Dutch). In fact, one of the main reasons why we decided
to publish this volume is that we judged that not all of Teun’s best work had
appeared in readily available sources. As a result, we felt that the interna-
tional scientific community perhaps did not enjoy full access to Teun’s world
of ideas.
In making this book, we did a minimum of editing, but we had to do
some, which we did, mostly without indicating that we did it. We harmo-
nized matters of style and lay-out and we updated the references. All foot-
notes are as in the original; editors’footnotes are identified as such. At the
end of each article a note has been added detailing the bibliographical history
of the article.
The editors would like to thank the following people for their help in
realizing this project in one way or another: Frits Beukema, Abdelkader
Fassi Fehri, Jacqueline Guéron, Vincent van Heuven, Menno, Femke and
viii Preface
Elmer Hoekstra, Richard Kayne, Henk van Riemsdijk, Erik Schoorlemmer,
Tim Stowell en Maarten van Wijk. We also thank the co-authors of the arti-
cles that appear here.
This publication would have been impossible without the financial help
from the Leiden Centre for Linguistics ULCL.
Most of all we remain deeply indebted to Teun.
The editors
Teun Hoekstra’s Bibliography
1977
Een funktionele verklaring van verplaatsingstransformaties: negative raising
[A functional explanation of movement transformations: negative raising].
Forum der Letteren18 (2): 91–104.
1978
a. De status en plaats van het indirekt objekt [The indirect object: Its status and
place]. In Aspekten van woordvolgorde in het Nederlands, Jan Kooij (ed.),
40–69. Leiden: Publikaties van de vakgroep Nederlandse Taal- &
Letterkunde. [Included in his volume.]
b. Waarom NIETniet NEG is [Why NIETisn’t NEG]. GLOT1 (2): 93–117.
c. Functionele grammatika [Functional grammar]. Forum der Letteren 19 (4):
293–312.
1979
a. Passief en het lexicon [Passive and the lexicon]. Forum der Letteren 20 (2):
137–161 (with Michael Moortgat).
b. Het Freezing Principle en gestrande preposities [The Freezing Principle and
stranded prepositions]. GLOT2 (1): 45–55.
c. Review of H.C. van Riemsdijk, Acase study in syntactic markedness.GLOT2
(2): 181–194 (with Michael Moortgat).
d. Review of J. Koster, Locality principles in syntax. GLOT2 (2): 195–214 (with
Michael Moortgat).
1980
a. Introduction. In Lexical Grammar, Teun Hoekstra, Harry van der Hulst &
Michael Moortgat (eds.), 1–48. Dordrecht: Foris Publications (with Harry van
der Hulst & Michael Moortgat).
b. Het lexicon en de klasse van mogelijke grammatica’s [The lexicon and the
class of possible grammars]. Forum der Letteren 21 (3): 177–195 (with Harry
van der Hulst & Michael Moortgat).
c. The status of the indirect object. In Linguistics in the Netherlands 1977-1979,
Wim Zonneveld & Fred Weerman (eds.), 152–169. Dordrecht: Foris Publications.
d. The Freezing Principle and stranded prepositions. In Linguistics in the
Netherlands 1977-1979, Wim Zonneveld en Fred Weerman (eds.), 321–335.
Dordrecht: Foris Publications.
x Teun Hoekstra’s Bibliography
1981
a. An outline of Functional Grammar. In Perspectives on Functional Grammar,
Teun Hoekstra, Harry van der Hulst & Michael Moortgat (eds.), 3–18. Dord-
recht: Foris Publications. [Also appeared as GLOT3 (3/4).]
b. De theorie van funktie-argument struktuur [The theory of function-argument
structure]. In Studies voor Damsteegt, G. Dibbets, Jan Kooij, Marijke van der
Wal, Ariane van Santen & J. van der Schans (eds.), 78–91. Leiden: Publikaties
van de vakgroep Nederlandse Taal- & Letterkunde.
c. The base and the lexicon in Lexical Grammar. In Linguistics in the Nether-
lands 1981, Saskia Daalder & Marinel Gerritsen (eds.), 93–101. Amsterdam:
North-Holland.
1983
a. The distribution of sentential complements. In Linguistics in the Netherlands
1983, Hans Bennis & W.U.S. van Lessen Kloeke (eds.), 93–103. Dordrecht:
Foris Publications.
b. An alternative approach to Swahili grammar, review of Anthony J. Vitale
Swahili syntax. Lingua60 (1): 53–85 (with Gerrit Dimmendaal).
c. Government and the distribution of sentential complements in Dutch. In
Sentential complementation, Wim de Geest & Yvan Putseys (eds.), 105–116.
Dordrecht: Foris Publications.
d. METmet PRO of METzonder PRO [METwith PRO or METwithout PRO].
De Nieuwe Taalgids76 (6): 532–548 (with Frits Beukema).
e. De syntaxis van het Nederlands [The syntax of Dutch]. Dordrecht: Foris
Publications [Textbook] (with Hans Bennis).
1984
a. Transitivity. Grammatical relations in Government-Binding Theory. Dordrecht:
Foris Publications.
b. Krijgen. In Linguistics in the Netherlands 1984, Hans Bennis & W.U.S. van
Lessen Kloeke (eds.), 65–73. Dordrecht: Foris Publications.
c. Gaps and parasitic gaps. The Linguistic Review4 (1): 29–87 (with Hans Bennis).
d. Extractions from WITH-constructions. Linguistic Inquiry 15 (4): 689–698
(with Frits Beukema).
e. Review of George Horn, Lexical-Functional Grammar. Linguistics 22: 243–246.
1985
a. Een gat in de distributie van OM-zinnen [Agap in the distribution of OM-sen-
tences]. GLOT8 (1): 5–23 (with Hans Bennis).
b. Parasitic gaps in Dutch. Proceedings of NELS 15, 1–14 (with Hans Bennis).
c. De nominale infinitief [The nominal infinitive]. GLOT 8 (3): 257–274 (with
Pim Wehrmann). [Included in his volume.]