Argument Structure and Adjuncts: Perspectives from New Guinea

Conceptual Structures and CCG: Linking Theory and Incorporated Argument Adjuncts

In Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) [Ste90, Ste91], semantic function-argument structures are compositionally produced through the course of a derivation. These structures identify, interalia, which entities play the same roles in different events for expressions involving a wide range of coordinate constructs. This sameness of role (i.e., thematic) information is not identified, however, a...

Conceptual Structures And Ccc: Linking Theory And Incorporated Argument Adjuncts

In Combinatory Categnrial Grammar (CCG) [Ste90, Ste91], semantic function-argument structures are compositionally produced through the course of a derivation. These s tructures identify, inter alia, which entities play the same roles in different events for expressions involving a wide range of coordinate constructs. This sameness of role (i.e. ~hematie) information is not identified, however, ...

Lexicality and Argument Structure

Argument structure has two faces, semantic and syntactic. On the semantic side, argument structure represents the core participants in events (states, processes) designated by a single predicator. From this point of view it appears as a type of representation of event structure. On the syntactic side, argument structure represents the minimal information needed to characterize the syntactic dep...

Non-Verbal Argument Structure: Evidence from Tagalog

This dissertation examines the syntax and argument structure of non-verbal predicates (focusing primarily on adjectives) in Tagalog. Drawing on evidence from a variety of construction types (including Comparative, Existential, and Ellipsis constructions among others), I argue against the claim that adjectives differ from verbs in their ability to project an internal theme argument (Pesetsky 198...

Commentary: Contrary findings from Guinea-Bissau and Papua New Guinea.