Inverse scope and unaccusativity alternation

French Inchoatives and the Unaccusativity Hypothesis*

Prosody and Scope in German Inverse Linking Constructions

In German, prosody interacts with quantifier scope. We investigate this interaction in inverse linking constructions. We present evidence from elicited production of linguistically naive speakers supporting the following two claims: 1) There are two kinds of inverse linking constructions of which only the prepositional type requires a marked intonation contour for inverse scope. 2) In the prepo...

Hardness and Approximability of the Inverse Scope Problem

For a given metabolic network, we address the problem of determining the minimum cardinality set of substrate compounds necessary for synthesizing a set of target metabolites, called the inverse scope problem. We define three variants of the inverse scope problem whose solutions may indicate minimal nutritional requirements that must be met to ensure sustenance of an organism, with or without s...

Parameterizations of hitting set of bundles and inverse scope

Hitting Set of Bundles generalizes the ordinary Hitting Set problem in the way that prescribed bundles of elements rather than single elements have to be put in a hitting set. The goal is to minimize the total number of distinct elements in the solution. First we prove that Hitting Set of Bundles, with the number of hyperedges and the solution size as parameter, is W [1]-complete. This contrast...

Event Structure, Unaccusativity, and Locative Inversion

This paper attempts to account for why Chinese locative inversion exhibits crosslinguistically peculiar distributional properties. I argue that the attested crosslinguistic differences are attributed to the differences in the way the socalled “state subevent condition” (Nakajima 2001) is satisfied. Specifically, I claim that it is an operation on the event structure that allows certain nonpassi...