Psychological Predicates and the Syntax-semantics Interface
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The hypothesis of the autonomy of syntax makes special demands on one of the central issues in linguistic theory: the specification of correspondences between a lexical conceptual and syntactic structure. One strategy is to distinguish several layers of lexical representation and allow only one of them to be "visible" to syntactic and morphological processes (cf. Pinker 1989, Grimshaw 1990). A recent implementation of this strategy is the Aspectual Interface Hypothesis (AIH) advocated by Tenny since 1987. The AIH is driven by the assumption that there is a direct and uniform association between telicity, or what Tenny calls "aspectual measuring-out" of events, and the internal direct object argument in the d-structure.
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