This book develops an approach to the causative alternation that assumes syntactic event decomposition and a configurational theta theory. It is couched within

This book develops an approach to the causative alternation that assumes syntactic event decomposition and a configurational theta theory. It is couched within

How do new ways of encoding valence alternations emerge, how and why do they spread, and what are the consequences of their emergence and spread for already exi

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, br

This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective. It uses data principally from