Unaccusativity: At the Syntax-lexical Semantics Interface (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs)

by Beth Levin (Author)

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  Paperback
  1995

  $85.25

  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.