Event Semantics of Verb Frame Alternations : A Case Study of Dutch and Its Acquisition

ISBN-13: 9780815331285 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 424 str.

Angeliek Van Hout; Angeliek Van Hout; Angelick Von Hout

Opis

Using both theoretical and language acquisition arguments, this study proposes a new model of the lexicon-syntax interface defined in terms of checking event-semantic features. The research is based on Dutch verbs and their possible verb frames (intransitive, transitive, etc.) and two studies of children's Dutch. The model developed from these cases represents more generally the way in which Universal Grammar organizes the lexicon of a language and the mapping system that associates a verb's lexical features with its syntactic projection.

Spis treści

1: Lexicon Theories: State of the Art; 2: Verb Frame Alternations in Dutch; 3: Event Type-Shifting; 4: The Lexicon and the Lexicon-Syntax Interface: The CHESS Model; 5: Learning Verbs: Learning Light Verbs; 6: Learning Verbs: Learning Intransitive Verbs

O autorze

Angeliek Van Hout