This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations
from a cross-linguistic perspective. It focuses particularly on the causative/anticausative …

This book is concerned with anticausative verbs, ie, the intransitive version of verbs that
undergo the causative alternation. The main topic is the investigation of the so-called …

This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the
meanings of verbs. It adopts the now common view that verb meanings consist at least partly …

The paper offers a theoretical characterization of the middle Voice as distinct from the
passive Voice, and addresses the cross-linguistic morphological variation in realizing these …

This dissertation investigates the syntactic and semantic properties of fragments--utterances
which consist of a constituent smaller than a clause. Examples include short answers, such …

This paper pursues some of the consequences of the idea that there are (at least) two
sources for distributive/cumulative interpretations in English. One source is lexical …

While expletive there has primarily been studied in the context of the existential construction,
it has long been known that some but not all lexical verbs are compatible with there …

This book focuses on the relationship between syntax and meaning. Terje Lohndal's core
claim is that it is possible to create a transparent mapping from syntax to logical form such …

This article discusses the transitivity alternation between lexical causative verbs and their
anticausative (inchoative) counterparts. It provides an overview of the semantic, syntactic …

Die Valenzgrammatik ist wie die Mehrzahl moderner Grammatiktheorien eine
projektionistische Theorie. Sie geht davon aus, dass Verben (und andere Valenzträger) mit …