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The Morphosyntax of Transitions OXFORD STUDIES IN THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS GENERAL EDITORS DavidAdgerandHagitBorer,QueenMary,UniversityofLondon ADVISORY EDITORS Stephen Anderson,YaleUniversity; DanielBüring,University ofCalifornia,LosAngeles; NomiErteschik-Shir,Ben-GurionUniversity;DonkaFarkas,UniversityofCalifornia,Santa Cruz;AngelikaKratzer,UniversityofMassachusetts,Amherst;AndrewNevins,University CollegeLondon;ChristopherPotts,StanfordUniversity;BarrySchein,UniversityofSouthern California;PeterSvenonius,UniversityofTroms(cid:1);MoiraYip,UniversityCollegeLondon RECENT TITLES DiagnosingSyntax editedbyLisaLai-ShenChengandNorbertCorver PseudogappingandEllipsis byKirstenGengel SyntaxanditsLimits editedbyRaffaellaFolli,ChristinaSevdali,andRobertTruswell PhraseStructureandArgumentStructure ACaseStudyoftheSyntax-SemanticsInterface byTerjeLohndal EdgesinSyntax ScramblingandCyclicLinearization byHeejeongKo TheSyntaxofRootsandtheRootsofSyntax editedbyArtemisAlexiadou,HagitBorer,andFlorianSchäfer CausationinGrammaticalStructures editedbyBridgetCopleyandFabienneMartin ContinuationsandNaturalLanguage byChrisBarkerandChung-chiehShan TheSemanticsofEvaluativity byJessicaRett ExternalArgumentsinTransitivityAlternations byArtemisAlexiadou,ElenaAnagnostopoulou,andFlorianSchäfer ControlandRestructuring byThomasGrano TheInteractionofFocus,Givenness,andProsody AStudyofItalianClauseStructure byVieriSamek-Lodovici TheMorphosyntaxofGender byRuthKramer TheMorphosyntaxofImperatives byDanielaIsac SentenceandDiscourse editedbyJacquelineGuéron Optimality-TheoreticSyntax,Semantics,andPragmatics FromUni-toBidirectionalOptimization editedbyGéraldineLegendre,MichaelT.Putnam,HenriëttedeSwart,andErinZaroukian TheMorphosyntaxofTransitions ACaseStudyinLatinandOtherLanguages byVíctorAcedo-Matellán Foracompletelistoftitlespublishedandinpreparationfortheseries,seepp. The Morphosyntax of Transitions A Case Study in Latin and Other Languages VÍCTOR ACEDO-MATELLÁN 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OXDP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. 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Contents Generalpreface ix Acknowledgements x Listofabbreviations xi Introduction . Aimandproposal . Methodology .. Theadvantagesofatheoreticalapproachtothe grammarofunspokenlanguages .. Dataandcorpus . Structure Aneo-constructionistperspectiveonargumentstructure . Endo-skeletalversusexo-skeletalapproachestothelexicon- syntaxinterface . Threeneo-constructionisttheoriesandapredecessor .. HaleandKeyser’stheoryoflexicalsyntax .. Mateu() .. Borer(b) .. DistributedMorphology . Thepresentframework .. Argumentstructureissyntax ... Nol-/s-syntaxdistinction ... Relationalandnon-relationalelements ... Argumentstructureconfigurations ... Adjunctionofrootstofunctionalheads .. Thesemanticsofargumentstructure:alocalist-aspectual approach ... Structuralandencyclopaedicsemantics ... Interpretationoffunctionalheadsandarguments ... Againstrootontologies ... Aspectandargumentstructure ... Localitydomainsforspecialmeaning . Summary vi Contents Thesyntax-morphologyinterface . Wordsandstructure . Lateinsertionandthenatureofroots . CyclicSpell-Out . OperationsatPF .. MorphologicalMerger .. LinearizationandVocabularyInsertion.Exponent- defectivenessandPFcrash .. InteractionbetweenRaisingandVocabularyInsertion. Cross-linguisticvariation . Summary Latinasasatellite-framedlanguage . Talmy’s()theoryofchangeeventsanditsadaptationtothe presentframework .. Talmy’stheoryof(motion)events .. Beyondeventsofmotion .. Anasymmetricdifference .. Non-dynamiceventsandthes-/v-frameddistinction .. AsyntacticinterpretationofTalmy’stheory ... Syntacticstructuringofeventsofchange ... Amorphologicalaccountofthes-/v-frameddifference . ThesurfaceshapeofPathPinLatin .. Verbalprefixes .. DirectionalPPs .. VerbalprefixesincombinationwithdirectionalPPs .. VerbalprefixesincombinationwithDPs .. DirectionalDPs .. APs .. CaseanddirectionalPPsandDPs . S-framedconstructionsinLatin .. ComplexDirectedMotionConstructions ... CDMCsandsituationaspect ... CDMCsandnon-directedmotionconstructionsinLatin ... TheunaccusativenatureofCDMCs .. FigureUnselectedObjectConstructions ... Thesyntaxandsemanticsofprefixedvsunprefixedverbs ... Conditionsonthelicensingofnullobjects:bibo‘drink’ vsebibo‘drinkup’ ... Casealternations,situationaspect,andthemerging ofroots Contents vii ... Scopalrelationsbetweenprefixandverb .. GroundUnselectedObjectConstructions ... CaseandsituationaspectwhentheobjectisaGround ... TransitiveGroundUOCsinLatin ... UnaccusativeGroundUOCs .. TheLocativeAlternation ... ApproachestotheLA ... TheLAandthes-/v-frameddistinction ... TheLAandprefixation.TheheterogeneityoftheLA .. Pseudoreversatives . Summary Weaksatellite-framedlanguages . Thenon-existenceofcomplexadjectivalresultativesinLatinandSlavic .. Resultativeconstructions:initialclarifications ... Complexandsimpleresultativeconstructions ... Strongandweakresultativeconstructions ... Situationaspectincomplexresultativeconstructions. TheAPasaresultpredicate .. NocomplexAPresultativesinLatin .. NocomplexAPresultativesinSlavic .. NocomplexPPresultativeswithoutaprefix.Internal andexternalprefixes . LatinandSlaviccomplexresultativeswithaninternalprefix .. Latincomplexresultativeconstructions .. Slaviccomplexresultativeconstructions .. Therelationbetweenresultativityandprefixation ... Resultativitywithoutaninternalprefix ... Atelicpredicatesandprefixation ... AcontrastbetweenLatinandSlavic.Theroleof viewpointaspect . Theroleofmorphologyintheanalysisofresultativeconstructions .. ThemorphologicalpropertiesofPath.TheSplitS-framedness Hypothesis .. ThelackofcomplexAPresultativesinLatinandSlavic .. SimpleadjectivalresultativesinLatin . Summary ArevisionofTalmy’stypology . Anotherweaks-framedlanguage:AncientGreek . Strongs-framedlanguages viii Contents .. GermanandDutch .. English .. Icelandic .. Finno-Ugric . AtypologyoflanguagesbasedonthemorphologyofPath. Mandarinasaweaks-framedlanguage . Previousapproachesandpossiblecounterexamples .. Snyder(,),BeckandSnyder(a) .. HorrocksandStavrou(,)andHorrocks() .. Kratzer() .. Svenonius() .. Son()andSonandSvenonius() ... Korean:presenceofcomplexadjectivalresultatives, absenceofCDMCs ... HebrewandJavanese:presenceofCDMCs,absence ofcomplexadjectivalresultatives . Summary Challengesandprospects . Thelocusofcross-linguisticvariation:TalmyorSnyder? .. ComplexEffectedObjectConstructionsinEnglishandLatin .. AbsenceofCEOCsinv-framedlanguages.Theoretical implications . Reducingcross-linguisticvariationtoPFproperties Appendix:Latintelicpredicateswithprefixedmanner-of-motionverbs (section..) References Index General preface Thetheoreticalfocusofthisseriesisontheinterfacesbetweensubcomponentsofthe humangrammaticalsystemandthecloselyrelatedareaoftheinterfacesbetweenthe differentsubdisciplinesoflinguistics.Thenotionof‘interface’hasbecomecentralin grammaticaltheory(forinstance,inChomsky’sMinimalistProgram)andinlinguis- tic practice: work on the interfaces between syntax and semantics, syntax and morphology, phonology and phonetics, etc. has led to a deeper understanding of particularlinguisticphenomenaandofthearchitectureofthelinguisticcomponent ofthemind/brain. The series covers interfaces between core components of grammar, including syntax/morphology, syntax/semantics, syntax/phonology, syntax/pragmatics, morph- ology/phonology, phonology/phonetics, phonetics/speech processing, semantics/ pragmatics,andintonation/discoursestructure,aswellasquestionsofhowthesystems ofgrammarinvolvingtheseinterfaceareasareacquiredanddeployedinuse(including languageacquisition,languagedysfunction,andlanguageprocessing).Itdemonstrates, we hope, that proper understandings of particular linguistic phenomena, languages, languagegroups,orinter-languagevariationsallrequirereferencetointerfaces. Theseriesisopentoworkbylinguistsofalltheoreticalpersuasionsandschoolsof thought.Amajorrequirementisthatauthorsshouldwritesoastobeunderstoodby colleaguesinrelatedsubfieldsoflinguisticsandbyscholarsincognatedisciplines. In the current volume, Acedo-Matellán proposes a new theory of the difference betweenverb-framedandsatellite-framedlanguages.Thisdistinctionisusuallytaken tobeonethatcentresonhowthesemanticsoflexicalitemsisstructured,butAcedo- Matellán argues that the difference is fundamentally one of the morphological exponence of syntactically present functional heads. He develops a theory of this, constrained by adjacency and shows how cross-linguistic variation in argument structure turns upon the different ways in which the systems of phonological and phonetic form interpret the structures delivered by syntax to the interfaces. This proposalleadstoanew,morenuancedtypologyoftherelationshipbetweenwords, broadlyconstrued,andargumentstructures. DavidAdger HagitBorer
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