This paper provides a comprehensive review and analysis of the facts of anticausativization,
the phenomenon whereby an inchoative verb is morphologically derived from its causative …

This article reviews some of the many and varied arguments for the 'split-vP'syntactic
architecture that has taken over most of the functions of theta theory in the old Government …

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 …

A compositional theory of verbal argument structure that explores how" noncore" arguments
are introduced into argument structures and examines cross-linguistic variation in …

The pragmatic force of a sentence and the pragmatic roles of discourse participants have
traditionally been considered to be peripheral to the syntactic component of Grammar …

The article examines the structure of resultative participles in English: participles that denote
a state resulting from a prior event, such as The cake is flattened or The metal is hammered …

This paper provides a new perspective on the options available to languages for encoding
directed motion events. Talmy (2000) introduces an influential two-way typology, proposing …

This paper argues for a distinction between word formation fromroots and word formation
from existing words. Focusing on Hebrew, it is shown that roots–and only roots–may be …

This book is the result of investigations on different aspects of Chomsky's framework of
phases. Earlier versions of the core ideas that can be found in the following pages were …

This book is simultaneously a theoretical study in morphosyntax and an in-depth empirical
study of Hebrew. Based on Hebrew data, the book defends the status of the root as a lexical …