Remarks on Lexical Structure and DRS Construction

Kamp, Hans; Roßdeutscher, Antje

doi:10.1515/thli.1994.20.2-3.97

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“…Note that while internally caused verbs do not transitivize they nevertheless can be causativized in the periphrastic causative construction, which expresses an indirect causation (Piñón 2001b What explains the second difference between Greek and German anticausatives with respect to instrumental PPs (licensed in Greek but not in German)? We believe that this has to do with the distinction between 'pure instrument' and 'instrument-causer' proposed in Kamp and Rossdeutscher (1994), see also the discussion in L&RH (2005: 147 and references therein). Pure instruments presuppose either agentivity or volition both located in Voice, which is not present in anticausatives.…”

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The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically

Αλεξιαδου¹,

Anagnostopoulou²,

Schäfer³

2006

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GoalsThe causative/anticausative alternation has been the topic of much typological and theoretical discussion in the linguistic literature. This alternation is characterized by verbs with transitive and intransitive uses, such that the transitive use of a verb V means roughly 'cause to Vintransitive' (see Levin 1993). The discussion revolves around two issues: the first one concerns the similarities and differences between the anticausative and the passive, and the second one concerns the derivational relationship, if any, between the transitive and intransitive variant. With respect to the second issue, a number of approaches have been developed. Judging the approach conceptually unsatisfactory, according to which each variant is assigned an independent lexical entry, it was concluded that the two variants have to be derivationally related. The question then is which one of the two is basic and where this derivation takes place in the grammar.Our contribution to this discussion is to argue against derivational approaches to the causative/anticausative alternation. We focus on the distribution of PPs related to external arguments (agent, causer, instrument, causing event) in passives and anticausatives of English, German and Greek and the set of verbs undergoing the causative/anticausative alternation in these languages. We argue that the crosslinguistic differences in these two domains provide evidence against both causativization and detransitivization analyses of the causative/anticausative alternation. We offer an approach to this alternation which builds on a syntactic decomposition of change of state verbs into a Voice and a CAUS 1 Versions of this paper were presented at the XXXI Incontro di Grammatica Generativa in Rome (February 2005), at the 28th GLOW Colloquium in Geneva (April 2005), at the Linguistics Seminar at the University of Venice (May 2005), at the CGSW 20 at the University of Tilburg (June 2005) and at the 36th NELS conference at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (October 2005). We would like to thank these audiences and an anonymous reviewer for comments and discussion.

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Schäfer³

2006

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“…Similarly, Alexiadou & Schäfer (2006) argue that the subject position cannot be associated with instruments but only with 'instrument causers' (instruments conceived as acting on their own, once the agent has applied/introduced them), as in (20b). Alexiadou et al (2006), following Kamp & Rossdeutscher (1994), judge sentences like 'the scalpel cured the patient' to be ill-formed. They are in fact grammatical and also perfectly interpretable (traditionally recognized as instances of the rhetorical figure of metonymy); for instance in admiring a famous surgeon's scalpel at an exhibition one may felicitously utter (20c).…”

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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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“…The connections between the principles of DRT and those of generative syntax are explored in depth in Chierchia [14]. Questions of lexical semantics from a DR-theoretical perspective are explored in Kamp and Rossdeutscher [42].…”

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Discourse Representation in Context

Eijck

Kamp

2011

Handbook of Logic and Language

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Discourse representation in context is the attempt to capture certain aspects of the interpretation of natural language texts that are beyond the mere truth conditions of the text. Prime examples are interpretation of indefinites and pronouns in context, and interpretation of tenses, in French and other languages.One of the debates surrounding the advent of discourse representation theory (DRT, [37]) and file change semantics (FCS,[35]) had to do with the issue of representationalism. Should we assume the representation structures to say something about what goes on in the mind of the interpreter, or not. On this issue, the followers of the Montague tradition tend to have strongly antimentalist views. Semantics, in the Montagovian perspective, is not about what goes on in the mind, but about how language relates to reality.Montague tried to settle the issue of representation languages ('logical form') once and for all by means of a careful demonstration that immediate interpretation of natural language fragments in appropriate models, without an intervening logical form, was possible. DRT and FSC, in their original presentations, re-introduced logical forms into the picture. The first attempts at rational reconstruction of DRT and FCS were geared at showing that the representation language (the boxes of DRT) could be eliminated again. This led to the development of compositional versions of DRT such as dynamic predicate logic (DPL), and dynamic versions of Montague grammar based on DPL. The snag was that these rational reconstructions were not quite faithful to the original enterprise. See [25] for a detailed account of the relationship between DRT and DPL, in the context of a historical study 1

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Remarks on Lexical Structure and DRS Construction

Abstract: The research reported in this paper was carried out as part of SFB 340, Sprachtheoretische Grundlagen f r die Computerlinguistik (Teilprojekt C3, Aspekte der Konstruktion semantischer Repr sentationen von Texten). We thank

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The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically

The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically

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

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