The central claim of this thesis is that the combinatorial properties of words are determined by their lexical structures. I argue that the lexicalist position follows from the Word Grammar (WG) analytical framework. This framework, developed by Hudson (1984, 1990, 1994, 2003), is the one that I adopt in the linguistic descriptions in the thesis, and the further development of the framework is ...

Inherent Case is understood as Case, the assignment of which has to be accompanied by theta-assignment (Chomsky 1995). While Nominative on the subject and Accusative on the direct object are typical representatives of structural Case, Genitive or Dative are usually taken as representatives of inherent Case. In this paper I first review the properties of ditransitive verbs in Czech explored in D...

0. Introduction Whenever we learn a novel word, whatever its grammatical category, what we are learning is a label for a whole category of things in the world. The word “dog,” for example, refers not to an individual dog, but to the whole set of dog-like things in the world. Likewise, the word “jump” refers not to a single instance of jumping, but to an entire category of jumping events. A larg...

Dopo che si è dimostrato efficace nell’insegnamento dell’italiano come L1, negli ultimi anni il concetto di valenza affermato progressivamente anche nella didattica lingua non materna. Il presente elaborato pone in continuità con quegli studi hanno evidenziato i vantaggi glottodidattici del modello per l’insegnamento agli stranieri. seguente articolo diviso due sezioni. Nella prima riportano tr...

In this paper, we will aim at contributing to the linguistic characterization of verb ter de/ter que [have to], pointing out some particularities that individualize it among modal semi-auxiliaries Portuguese. We gather information from morphology, syntax, semantics and textual discourse linguistics, also observed in examples collected CETEMPúblico corpus. The semi-auxiliary de, like dever [must...

We use STAG to model the interaction between demonstratives and tense found in Blackfoot (Algonquian). In clauses with no tense or aspect marking, past tense can be encoded through a distal demonstrative on either the internal argument (transitives, unaccusatives) or the external argument (unergatives). A fourth class of predicate, semantically transitive but syntactically intransitive with a p...

1.INTRODUCTION Transitivity is an ambiguous term. It can refer to the argument structure of a predicate, distingishing monovalent verbs with a single argument, from polyvalent verbs which obligatorily or optionally assign theta roles to more than one argument It can also refer to morphological and syntactic properties, such as the choice of case and the selection of auxiliary verbs. Ideally, th...

The current study examines focus and Nuclear Pitch Accent in the second language (L2) speech of Spanish speakers of English. We begin with a discussion of the distinct algorithms said to account for Nuclear Stress (NS) at work in Spanish and English. We then match the theoretical claims with experimental data on the placement of Nuclear Accent for various focus constructions from native speaker...

This paper provides a complex-predicate analysis of resultatives in terms of bare phrase structure. Our main claim is that the predicate types and thematic mapping rules required for simplex verbs can be used to explain core properties of resultative constructions if a strict versions of Chomsky’s inclusiveness condition is adopted. The analysis supports a view of subjects as external arguments...