Book contents
- Exploring Interfaces
- Exploring Interfaces
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction: The Road to Interfaces
- I Syntax–Lexicon Interface
- 1 The L2 Acquisition of English Anticausative Structures by L1 Spanish Speakers
- 2 Dispositional Evaluative Adjectives: Lexical Alternations, Behaviors, and Sideward Movement
- 3 The Role of P in Spanish Unaccusative Constructions
- 4 Degree Achievements of Color
- II Syntax–Semantics Interface
- III Linearization
- Index
- References
2 - Dispositional Evaluative Adjectives: Lexical Alternations, Behaviors, and Sideward Movement
from I - Syntax–Lexicon Interface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2019
Book contents
- Exploring Interfaces
- Exploring Interfaces
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction: The Road to Interfaces
- I Syntax–Lexicon Interface
- 1 The L2 Acquisition of English Anticausative Structures by L1 Spanish Speakers
- 2 Dispositional Evaluative Adjectives: Lexical Alternations, Behaviors, and Sideward Movement
- 3 The Role of P in Spanish Unaccusative Constructions
- 4 Degree Achievements of Color
- II Syntax–Semantics Interface
- III Linearization
- Index
- References
Summary
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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