Tubino Blanco Causatives in Minimalism

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-272-8659-8
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 179, 314 Seiten

Reihe: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

This monograph studies issues of current minimalist concern, such as whether differences in the expression of argument and syntactic structure can all be attributed to the parameterization of specific functional heads. In particular, this book studies in-depth the extent to which variation in the expression of causation, available both intra- and crosslinguistically, can be accounted for by appealing only to the microparameterization of the causative head, Cause, as previously argued for by linguists such as Pylkkänen. It concludes that the microparameterization of Cause may explain some major characteristics associated with causatives, but it cannot be regarded as the only explanation behind variation in these structures. The book includes relevant discussion on argument structure and looks in detail at languages, such as the Uto-Aztecan Hiaki, that have not received much attention before. It is mostly intended for an audience interested in theoretical approaches to argument structure and variation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tubino Blanco, Mercedes

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and symbols
Introduction
Contrasts in causatives
Theoretical framework
Exploring Root causatives
English causatives with make: The role of agreement in causatives
Productive causatives: Hiaki
Spanish productive causatives: Hacer
Spanish productive causatives: Hacer
References
Index