Towards a minimal argument structure
Författare
Redaktör
- Petra Bernardini
- Verner Egerland
- Jonas Granfeldt
Summary, in English
In this paper I give a short presentation of a syntactic approach to argument structure, taking a particular implementation of the minimalist framework (Chomsky (1995, 2001 and later)) as my point of departure. The proposed account allows for only 16 different argument structures, thereby reducing the syntactic variation at this level of syntax considerably. The theory also offers an explanation why no verb can have more than three DP arguments. Since the theory has its base in narrow syntax and not in the single verb and its argument structure variation, it may furthermore help us to understand which properties must be found in a particular root for it to be associated with this or that argument structure.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2009
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
353-371
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Mélanges plurilingues offerts à Suzanne Schlyter à l’occasion de son 75ème anniversaire,
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Lund University: Språk- och litteraturcentrum
Ämne
- Languages and Literature
- Humanities
Status
Published
Projekt
- TEJS
Forskningsgrupp
- GRIMM
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-91-978017-0-6