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Higginbotham, James

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“…She notes that there is a causativizing affix -j in early Germanic, which becomes -i in Old English. Lass (1994: 166) We argue that this causative semantics is not encoded in the head per se, but rather emerges as a property of the entire syntactic configuration (Hale and Keyser 1993, Higginbotham 2000, Marantz 2006, Ramchand 2008, this volume, Schäfer 2012). The other 'causative' suffixes are pure verbalizers, realizing little v. The main argument for the differentiation among the suffixes is that the non-en suffixes are not productive and do not provide real causative semantics.…”

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On the division of labor between roots and functional structure

Αλεξιαδου¹,

Lohndal²

2017

Oxford Scholarship Online

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This chapter argues that there is a typology of languages according to how much meaning a root encodes independently of its syntactic categorization. This typology is illustrated by an in-depth discussion of three languages: English, Greek, and Hebrew. Hebrew is argued to represent one end of the scale where the root encodes a minimal and highly abstract meaning. English represents the other end where the root has a severely restricted meaning. The two languages differ in terms of the role of functional morphology, which is crucial in Hebrew but not at all a central part of English. Greek is important in the sense that the language falls in between English and Hebrew: it has some highly general and abstract roots, and it has some roots with highly determined and specified meanings.

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On the division of labor between roots and functional structure

Αλεξιαδου¹,

Lohndal²

2017

Oxford Scholarship Online

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“…Classifiers are shown to be grammatical devices for building individuals out of kinds, or counting event times or event units. Future research is needed to compare the kind of approach proposed with that typically advocated by thematic or causal approaches such as Dowty's (1991), Higginbotham's (2000b), or Ramchand's (2003, though from different angles. As observed by Fassi Fehri (2007), in a causal architecture built on an Initiator-Process-Result model, Classifier marking and delimiting mechanisms of telic senses come as a surprise.…”

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Verbal and nominal classes in Arabic and Chinese

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Vinet²

2008

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“…Importantly, Schäfer (2012: 171) argues that: "There are no semantically annotated little v-heads, and specifically no vCAUS […] This would mean that the verbal head introducing a simple unbounded event is combined with a secondary resultative predicate [...] The causative relation between events is neither lexically nor syntactically represented, but it is read off of the complex event structure post-syntactically at the Conceptual-Intentional Interface (CI-interface; Chomsky 1995)." Schäfer also draws a parallel with Higginbotham's (2000) notion of a telic pair. Anagnostopoulou (2009) andSchäfer (2012: 162) explicitly address the question that interests us here, namely how instrumental case/Ps relate to the causative/ result interpretation just outlined.…”

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Instrumental prepositions and case: Contexts of occurrence and alternations with datives

Franco

Manzini

2017

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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We will argue that instrumentals are the mirror image of dative/genitive obliques. We propose that both sets of adpositions/cases are elementary predicates, expressing a zonal inclusion (partwhole/possession relation); instrumentals reverse the direction of the relation with respect to datives/genitives. Our claim is that with-type morphemes provide very elementary means of attaching extra participants (themes, initiators, etc.) to events (VP or vP predicates) -with specialized interpretations derived by pragmatic enrichment (contextual, encyclopedic) at the C-I interface. We will extend our proposal to account for the observation that the instrumentals can be employed cross-linguistically in triadic verb constructions alternating with datives and we will broaden our discussion to account for dative/instrumental syncretism (eventually including DOM objects), arguing that the inclusion predicate (⊆) corresponding to 'to' or dative case and its reverse (⊇), corresponding to 'with' or instrumental case, may reduce to an even more primitive content capable of conveying inclusion in either direction. Finally, we will address ergative alignments, showing that languages may attach external arguments/agents either as possessors (⊆) or as causers (⊇) of a given event/state, yielding the two most widespread patterns of syncretism of the ergative morpheme, that is with either instrumentals or genitives/datives.

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On the division of labor between roots and functional structure

On the division of labor between roots and functional structure

Verbal and nominal classes in Arabic and Chinese

Instrumental prepositions and case: Contexts of occurrence and alternations with datives

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