http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
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This text considers the recent results and evaluations of the theta system in both theoretical and experimental domains. Distinguished linguists from all over the world examine the theory in the context of an array of new empirical data ranging from Germanic, Romance, and Slavic to Ugro-Finnish, and Semitic languages.
Cover -- Contents -- General Preface -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Theta System: an Introduction -- 2. The Linguistic Expression of Causation -- 3. The Content of Semantic Roles: Predicateâ€?Argument Structure in Language and Cognition -- 4. Combine -- 5. In the Event of a Nominal -- 6. Lexicon Uniformity and the Causative Alternation -- 7. In Defence of the Non-Causative Analysis of Anticausatives -- 8. Hidden Entries: a Psycholinguistic Study of Derivational Gaps -- 9. To Have the Empty Theta-Role -- 10. Emission Verbs
11. Verbal Passives in English and Hebrew: a Comparative Study12. An Event Semantics for the Theta System -- 13. Children Acquire Unaccusatives and A-Movement Very Early -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
edited by Martin Everaert, Marijana Marelj, Tal Siloni.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics
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