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The Unaccusativity Puzzle Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics General editors David Adger, University of York; Hagit Borer, University of Southern California Advisory editors Stephen Anderson, Yale University; Gennaro Chierchia, University of Milan; Rose-Marie Dechaine, University of British Columbia; Elan Dresher, University ofT oronto; James Higginbotham, University of Southern California; Pat Keat ing, University of California, Los Angeles; Ruth Kempson, School of Oriental and Mrican Studies, University of London; James McCloskey, University of California, Santa Cruz; Gillian Ramchand, University of Oxford; Maria-Luisa Zubizarreta, University of Southern California This series provides a forum for cutting-edge work in theoretical linguistics. Its focus is on the interfaces between the subcomponents of grammar and between grammar and other components of the mind. PUBLISHED r. The Syntax of Silence Sluicing, Islands, and the Theory of Ellipsis by Jason Merchant 2. 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It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata KuaiaLumput Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Sao Paulo Shanghai Taipei Tokyo Toronto Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Editorial matter and organization Alexiadou, Anagnostopoulou, and Everaert © The several contributors and in this collection, Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou, and Martin Everaert, 2004 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2004 All rights reserved. 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Grammar, Comparative and general-Syntax 3. Lexicology. 1. Alexiadou, Artemis. II. Anagnostopoulou, Elena. III. Everaert, Martin. Iv. Series. P381.U532003 415'.6-dc22 2003060967 ISBN 0199257647 (hbk) ISBN 0199257655 (pbk) 13579108642 Typeset in Adobe Garamond by Peter Kahrel Ltd., Lancaster Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Biddies Ltd., www.biddles.co.uk Contents General Preface vii Abbreviations viii Contributors xi Introduction 1 ARTEMIS ALEXIADOU, ELENA ANAGNOSTOPOULOU, AND MARTIN EVERAERT 1. A Semantics for Unaccusatives and its Syntactic Consequences 22 GENNARO CHIERCHIA 2. Unaccusativity as Telicity Checking 60 ANGELIEK VAN HOUT 3. Unergative Adjectives and Psych Verbs HANS BENNIS 4. Voice Morphology in the Causative-Inchoative Alternation: Evidence for a Non-Unified Structural Analysis of Una ccusatives 114 ARTEMIS ALEXIADOU AND ELENA ANAGNOSTOPOULOU 5. Unaccusative Syntax and Verbal Alternations 137 DAVID EMBICK 6. Against an Unaccusative Analysis of Reflexives 159 TANYA REINHART AND TAL SILONI 7. Unaccusatives and Anticausatives in German 181 MARKUS STEINBACH 8. Syntactic Unaccusativity in Russian 207 MAAIKE SCHOORLEMMER vi Contents 9. Gradience at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface: Evidence from Auxiliary Selection and Implications for Unaccusativity 243 ANTONELLA SORACE 10. Unaccusativity in Saramaccan: The Syntax of Resultatives TONJES VEENSTRA 11. The Grammar Machine 288 HAGIT BORER 12. Acquiring Unaccusativity: A Cross-Linguistic Look 332 JANET RANDALL, ANGELIEK VAN HOUT, rURGEN WEISSENBORN, AND HARALD BAAYEN References 355 Index 371 Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics General Preface This volume has its origin in a workshop on unaccusativity organized by the Research Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS, Berlin) and the Netherlands Graduate School in Linguistics (LOT) hosted in Berlin in May 1998. However, the volume is independ ently structured and includes papers that were not presented during that event, such as the contributions by Chierchia, Reinhart, and Siloni and Sorace. The volume explores unaccusativity from different angles, and investigates vari ous aspects of the phenomenon, such as syntactic versus semantic approaches, the mechanisms driving the projection of arguments, the role of (semi-)functional heads in determining verb class membership, the status of unaccusativity diagnostics, the nature of the special morphology associated with unaccusative predicates, and the importance of unaccusativity for (second) language acquisition research. The editors would like to thank David Adger and Hagit Borer for including the volume in their series, the contributors for their co-operation, two external reviewers for their insightful comments, and ZAS and LOT for the financial support that made the workshop possible. Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Martin Everaert Abbreviations ABS absolutive case ACC accusative case Act active AGR agreement AS Argument Structure ASH Auxiliary Selection Hierarchy ASP aspect AUX auxiliary d. elitic CS Conceptual Structure DAT dative case DEF default (agreement) DET determiner D1STR distributive (interpretation) DO direct object ECM exceptional case-marking EPP Extended Projection Principle F feminine GCC General Condition on A-chains GEN genitive case IEPS Inferrable Eventual Position or State 1NSTR instrumental case 1NTRANS intransitive 10 indirect object 1PF imperfective LOC locative M masculine MID middle N neuter Nact non-active Abbreviations ix NEG negation NOM nominative case OE object experiencer OM object marker PASS passive PASSPART passive participle PAST past tense PF perfective PL plural PPP present-participle phrase PRT partitive case PVC perception-verb construction REFL reflexive SG singular SU subject SUB} subject SVC serial-verb construction TNS tense TRANS transitive TRS transitive reflexive sentence UH Unaccusative Hypothesis UTAH Universal Theta-Assignment Hypothesis
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