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Zusatztext ...a very valuable volume on the topic of unaccusativity. The editors have introduced expertly the volume, the phenomenon, and its analyses. Klappentext The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. The Unaccusative Hypothesis has provided a rich context for debating whether syntactic behavior is semantically or lexically determined! the consequence of syntactic context! or a combination of these factors. No consensus has been reached. This book combines new approaches to the subject with several papers that have achieved a significant status! though formally unpublished. Zusammenfassung The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. Among the issues the authors address in this book are as follows: the determination of the unaccusative class of verbs, the problem of unaccusativity diagnostics, the properties of second-language lexicon, and more. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series editors' preface Introduction 1: Gennaro Chierchia: A Semantics for unaccusatives and its syntactic consequences 2: Angeliek van Hout: Unaccusativity as telicity checking 3: Hans Bennis: Unergative adjectives and psych-verbs 4: Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou: Voice morphology in the causative-inchoative alternation: evidence for a non unified structural analysis of unaccusatives 5: David Embick: Unaccusative syntax and verbal alternations 6: Tanya Reinhart and Tal Siloni: Against an unaccusative analysis of reflexives 7: Markus Steinbach: Unaccusatives and anticausatives in German 8: Maaike Schoorlemmer: Syntactic unaccusativity in Russian 9: Antonella Sorace: Gradience at the lexicon-syntax interface: evidence from auxiliary selection 10: Tonjes Veenstra: Unaccusativity in Saramaccan: the syntax of resultatives 11: Hagit Borer: The grammar machine 12: Janet Randall, Angeliek van Hout, Juergen Weissenborn and Harald Baayen: Acquiring unaccusativity: a cross-linguistic look Index ...
