We respond to Rodríguez Arrizabalaga’s recent claim that Spanish
shows genuine cases of strong resultative constructions, e.g. Juan apuñaló a Tomás
hasta la muerte ‘John stabbed Tom to death’, argued to be equivalent to ...
Ausensi Jimenez, Josep; Yu, Jianrong; Smith, Ryan Walter(Ubiquity Press, 2021)
An influential proposal about the status of a verb’s agent argument maintains they
are severed from the verb’s argument structure and introduced as external arguments
via functional heads in the syntax (Kratzer 1996). ...
Ausensi Jimenez, Josep; Yu, Jianrong; Walter Smith, Ryan(Linguistic Society of America, 2020)
Since Marantz (1984) and Kratzer (1996), it has been widely accepted in the literature on argument structure that agents are introduced as external arguments via a functional head VOICE through secondary predication, using ...
This dissertation explores the division of labor between grammar and the
lexicon from the viewpoint of event structural theories which take verb meanings
to decompose into event templates and roots. Event templates ...
