The Syntax of Time (Current Studies in Linguistics) by Jacqueline Guéron, Alexander Lecarme PDF

By Jacqueline Guéron, Alexander Lecarme

ISBN-10: 0262072491

ISBN-13: 9780262072496

ISBN-10: 1417560509

ISBN-13: 9781417560509

Any research of the syntax of time relies on a paradox: it needs to comprise a syntax-based conception of either demanding construal and occasion construal. but whereas time is undimensional, occasions have a posh spatiotemporal constitution that displays their human members. How can an occasion be flattened to slot into the linear time axis? Chomsky's The Minimalist software, released in 1995, bargains how to deal with this challenge. The reviews amassed within the Syntax of Time examine even if difficulties about the construal of demanding and point will be diminished to syntactic difficulties for which the fundamental mechanism and ideas of generative grammar already offer solutions.These stories, contemporary paintings by means of top foreign students within the box, provide diversified views at the syntax of demanding and the temporal construal of occasions: types of annoying interpretation, construal of verbal types, temporal element as opposed to lexical element, the relation among the development and its argument constitution, and the interplay of case with aktionsart or stressful construal. Advances within the thought of temporal interpretation within the sentence also are utilized to the temporal interpretation of nominals.

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In Finnish, telic verbs take accusative objects while atelic verbs take partitive objects (‘I shot a bear/at a bear’ vs. ‘I shot the bear’; see Kiparsky 1998). Kratzer proposes that the connection between case and telicity is expressible in terms of the minimalist distinction between interpretable and uninterpretable features: verbal inflectional features would be the interpretable counterparts of uninterpretable case features (see Chomsky 1995; Pesetsky and Torrego 2001). The uninterpretable accusative feature on DP would agree with its interpretable counterpart, a verbal inflectional feature linked to a Telic head (¼ To for Pesetsky and Torrego).

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