Rothmayr The Structure of Stative Verbs

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-8946-9
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 143, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

This book explores the nature of stative verbs, their eventuality structure, and the patterns of argument realization. The study shows that there is no single class of stative verbs. Rather, several distinct groups of verbs are found: Verbs that undergo a systematic stative/eventive ambiguity; verbs that allow for a stative reading only; and verbs that seem to have an intermediate status (verbs of position and verbs of internal causation). The study concludes that there is a discrete boundary between stative and eventive verbs, excluding any intermediate status. Stativity arises because the aspectual operators DO and BECOME are absent in the lexical-semantic structure. Eventivity arises if one of these is present. A minimalist view on argument realization and event structure completes the book: Theta features on the arguments are checked against the aspectual heads within the verb phrase.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rothmayr, Antonia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of tables
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Theoretical considerations
Chapter 3. Stative/eventive ambiguities
Chapter 4. Non-ambiguous statives
Chapter 5. Verbs of position
Chapter 6. Verbs of internal causation
Chapter 7. Event structure and theta features
Chapter 8. Conclusion
References
Author index
Subject index