SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS: THE END OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURE? -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- CHAPTER 1 REMARKS ON ARGUMENT STRUCTURE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE ISSUE -- 3. THE QUESTIONS -- 4. THE PAPERS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2 ON THE ADJECTIVAL COMPONENT OF CHANGE OF STATE VERBS IN SPANISH -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. INTERPRETATIVE AND FORMAL PROPERTIES OF VARI CONSTRUCTIONS -- 3. BACKGROUND AND PROPOSAL -- 3.1. Lexical Decomposition as Syntax -- 3.2. Head Movement -- 3.3. VARI Constructions: A Hypothesis -- 4. VARI CONSTRUCTIONS AS MULTIPLE COPY PRONUNCIATION OF DECOMPOSED VERBS -- 4.1. Degree Modifiers in Change of State Verbs -- 4.2. On the Unique Character of BIEN -- 4.3. On Pronunciation of Multiple Copies -- 4.4. Consequences for Break-Type Verbs -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3 ''OBLIQUENESS'' AS A COMPONENT OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURE IN AMHARIC -- 1. GENERAL FRAMING -- 2. BASICS OF AMHARIC ARGUMENT STRUCTURE -- 3. HIERARCHY IN TRIADIC VERBS -- 4. ANOTHER FACTOR IN AMHARIC ARGUMENT STRUCTURE: ''OBLIQUENESS'' -- 4.1. Two Kinds of Triadic Verbs -- 4.2. Dyadic Verbs with Oblique Arguments -- 4.3. Impersonal Monadic Verbs -- 5. ''OBLIQUE'' ARGUMENTS AS NPs GOVERNED BY A NULL P -- 5.1. Motivating the Core Proposal -- 5.2. Developing the Core Proposal -- 5.3. Applying the Core Proposal: Impersonal Verbs -- 5.4. Special Issues with Dyadic Constructions -- 6. ISSUES ARISING -- 6.1. Is Obliqueness Semantically Predictable? -- 6.2. Why Can Only Certain Arguments be Oblique? -- 6.3. Is the Oblique-Direct Distinction Universal? -- 6.4. Possible Implications for Projectionism versus Constructionism -- 7. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4 THE ANTIPASSIVE AND ITS RELATION TO SCALAR STRUCTURE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BACKGROUND ON SCALES.

3. THE ERGATIVE/ANTIPASSIVE DISTINCTION AS A RESULT/MANNER DISTINCTION -- 3.1. Aspectual Differences -- 3.2. Manner Verbs and Object Deletion -- 3.3. Suffixless Antipassive -- 3.4. Challenges to the Manner/Path Analysis -- 4. THE INCHOATIVE -- 5. ADDING ARGUMENTS IN THE ANTIPASSIVE -- 6. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5 SOME STRUCTURAL ANALOGIES BETWEEN EXISTENTIAL INTERPRETATION AND TELICITY -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ESTABLISHING THE EFFECTS OF OBJECTS -- 2.1. Transitivity -- 2.2. Structure of Objects -- 3. THEORIES -- 3.1. Event Composition -- 3.2. Information Structure -- 3.3. Event Composition or Information Structure? -- 4. EXTENDING EVENT COMPOSITION -- 4.1. Composing the VP -- 4.2. Voice in Events and States -- 5. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6 EXTERNAL ARGUMENT-INTRODUCING HEADS: VOICE AND APPL -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. Assumptions -- 1.2. Organization of the chapter -- 2. VOICE AND APPL ARE SEMANTICALLY DIFFERENT -- 2.1. No agent-introducing heads in the complements of causatives -- 2.2. ApplP can be the complement of causatives -- 2.3. Korean morphological causatives as applicative-selecting causatives -- 2.4. Semantics of Appl and Voice -- 3. VOICE AND APPL ARE SYNTACTICALLY DIFFERENT -- 3.1. English experiencer have -- 3.2. Morphological evidence to peripheral Appl -- 4. VOICE AND APPL ARE NOT FLAVORS OF ONE ANOTHER -- 5. CONSEQUENCES -- 6. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7 TOWARD THE END OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ARGUMENTS AGAINST LEXICAL ADICITIES -- 2.1. Davidsonian versus Neo-Davidsonian Representations -- 2.2. Severing the Agent -- 2.3. Focus and Full Thematic Separation -- 2.4. Variable Verbal Adicities -- 3. IDIOMS AND THEMES -- 4. CHALLENGES FOR THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE -- 5. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES.

CHAPTER 8 A NOTE ON APPLICATIVES -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. HIGH AND LOW APPLICATIVES -- 3. APPLICATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN SLOVENIAN -- 3.1. Applicative Meanings and Structures of Ditransitive Sentences -- 3.2. Possessor Dative Construction, Unergative Verbs, and Static Verbs -- 3.3. Exceptions -- 4. DESCRIBING THE EXCEPTIONS FROM THE SYNTAX SIDE -- 4.1. Prepositional Dative Construction in Slovenian -- 4.2. Word Order and the High and Low Applicative Readings -- 5. DESCRIBING THE EXCEPTIONS FROM THE SEMANTIC SIDE -- 5.1. A Verb-Sensitive Approach to Dative Alternation -- 5.2. A Possible Solution -- 6. OTHER SOUTH SLAVIC LANGUAGES -- 7. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9 THE MANNER/RESULT COMPLEMENTARITY REVISITED: A SYNTACTIC APPROACH -- 1. THE MANNER/RESULT COMPLEMENTARITY -- 2. A SYNTACTIC APPROACH TO THE MANNER/RESULT COMPLEMENTARITY -- 3. THE VERB CLIMB AND THE MANNER/RESULT COMPLEMENTARITY -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10 SYNCRETISM AS PF-REPAIR: THE CASE OF SE-INSERTION IN SPANISH -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE DISTRIBUTION OF SE CONSTRUCTIONS IN SPANISH -- 3. SOME ASSUMPTIONS: FEATURE INHERITANCE AND SUBCATEGORIZATION -- 4. THE SYNTAX OF SE CONSTRUCTIONS -- 5. A PHASE-BASED APPROACH TO CL-INSERTION -- 6. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11 ARGUMENTS FROM THE ROOT VS. ARGUMENTS FROM THE SYNTAX -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO MALAGASY SYNTAX -- 3. SYNTAX CREATES ARGUMENT STRUCTURE: PRELIMINARY SUPPORT -- 3.1. v and Its Flavors in Malagasy -- 3.2. Other Instantiations of v -- 4. SYNTAX CREATES ARGUMENT STRUCTURE: A PROBLEM -- 4.1. Other uses of (m)aha- (from Phillips, 1996) -- 4.2. Telicity in Malagasy -- 4.3. External Arguments Added by Syntax -- 4.4. External Arguments: Argument Structure vs. Syntax -- 5. ROOTS PROVIDE ARGUMENT STRUCTURE: PRELIMINARY REPORT.

6. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT INDEX.