Event structure and syntax: German*
| dc.contributor.author | Wilhelm, Andrea | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-21T20:21:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-06-21T20:21:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper deals with the role of the lexicon versus the syntax in event structure by examining particle verb formation in German. There are two types of particles in German: Delimiting particles, which derive accomplishments or activities from activity base verbs, and nondelimiting ones, which leave the aspectual class of the base verb (activity) unchanged. A theory such as Ritter & Rosen (1998, to appear), which explicitly represents event structure in the syntax (e.g., through an FF-delimitation) is not able to account for the German facts, as it cannot explain the uniform morphosyntactic behavior of all particles. An analysis which combines syntactic structure (VP-shells, following Hale & Keyser (1994), Chomsky (1995)) and lexical features is adapted. It treats particles as heads of an empty PP in the lower VP. Delimiting particles are distinguished from nondelimiting ones through a lexical feature [+delim]. This analysis is also successful in providing homogeneous case-marking for all internal arguments. It questions Ritter & Rosen's purely syntactic analysis of event structure, where delimitation is assumed to be a grammatical primitive. | en_US |
| dc.description.refereed | Yes | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Wilhelm, A. (1999). Event structure and syntax: German*. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 21(Winter), 44-65. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28950 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2371-2643 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51427 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Calgary | en_US |
| dc.publisher.department | Linguistics | en_US |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Arts | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en_US |
| dc.subject | Linguistics | en_US |
| dc.subject | German language | en_US |
| dc.subject | Syntax | en_US |
| dc.subject | Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb | en_US |
| dc.subject | Morphology | en_US |
| dc.subject | Distinctive features (Linguistics) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Grammar, Comparative and general--Aspect | en_US |
| dc.title | Event structure and syntax: German* | en_US |
| dc.type | journal article |