Dispositional Evaluative Adjectives: Lexical Alternations, Behaviors, and Sideward Movement

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2 - Dispositional Evaluative Adjectives: Lexical Alternations, Behaviors, and Sideward Movement

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2019

Violeta Demonte

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Mónica Cabrera and

José Camacho

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Mónica Cabrera: Affiliation:
Loyola Marymount University, California
José Camacho: Affiliation:
Rutgers University, New Jersey

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Long the focus of intense discussion in linguistics forums, verbal diathesis alternations (or argument re-ordering) have provided important theoretical tools and empirical materials for developing lexicalist, l-syntax, or purely syntactic hypotheses regarding the projection of argument structures (ASs) (Borer, 2005; Hale & Keyser, 2002; Levin & Rappaport Hovav, 1991; Zubizarreta, 1985, 1987; and others). Less attention has been paid to adjectival ASs. After the pioneering work by Wilkinson (1970), two seminal proposals, Cinque (1990) and Stowell (1991), made a start in this direction, opening new lines of analysis and proposing many productive hypotheses. Cinque (1990) set up the distinction between ergative and unergative adjectives, thus initiating a debate on the parallel between the argument projection of verbal and adjectival syntactic categories.

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