4. Argument structure and argument structure alternations

Abstract

This chapter discusses argument structure in Romance languages. After a brief review of some of the main issues that current descriptions of argument structure are facing, and of some of the most prominent answers to address these issues (Section 1), I discuss major types of grammatical relations in Romance relevant for argument selection, and the problem of identifying valency of lexical items (Section 2). Section 3 is an excursus about argument structure of nouns and adjectives. Section 4 is devoted to the main descriptive problem of argument structure in Romance (or any language or language family), namely the identification of linking patterns. Section 5 addresses argument alternations. Section 6 is a brief summary.

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