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Informationen zum Autor Angeliek Van Hout Klappentext Using both theoretical and language acquisition arguments, this study proposes a new model of the lexicon-syntax interface defined in terms of checking event-semantic features. The research is based on Dutch verbs and their possible verb frames (intransitive, transitive, etc.) and two studies of children's Dutch. The model developed from these cases represents more generally the way in which Universal Grammar organizes the lexicon of a language and the mapping system that associates a verb's lexical features with its syntactic projection. Zusammenfassung Using both theoretical and language acquisition arguments, this study proposes a new model of the lexicon-syntax interface defined in terms of checking event-semantic features. The research is based on Dutch verbs and their possible verb frames (intransitive, transitive, etc.) and two studies of children's Dutch. The model developed from these cases represents more generally the way in which Universal Grammar organizes the lexicon of a language and the mapping system that associates a verb's lexical features with its syntactic projection. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Lexicon Theories: State of the Art; 2: Verb Frame Alternations in Dutch; 3: Event Type-Shifting; 4: The Lexicon and the Lexicon-Syntax Interface: The CHESS Model; 5: Learning Verbs: Learning Light Verbs; 6: Learning Verbs: Learning Intransitive Verbs
