In this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to
shared meaning and behavior. Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning …

This work is the culmination of an eighteen-year collaboration between Ken Hale and
Samuel Jay Keyser on the study of the syntax of lexical items. It examines the hypothesis …

One of the basic premises of the theory of syntax is that clause structures can be minimally
identified as containing a verb phrase, playing the role of predicate, and a noun phrase …

This dissertation is a study of the syntactic and semantic properties of dative arguments. The
main source of data is Spanish, where dative arguments can appear with all types of verbs …

This textbook--an abridged version of Radford's Minimalist Syntax and the Syntax of English--
provides a concise and accessible introduction to current syntactic theory, drawing on the …

Particles are words that do not change their form through inflection and do not fit easily into
the established system of parts of speech. Examples include the negative particle" not," the …

This outstanding resource for students offers a step-by-step, practical introduction to English
syntax and syntactic principles, as developed by Chomsky over the past 15 years. Assuming …

In this book, I presented analyses for auxiliaries, subject and object control verbs, subject
and object raising verbs, copula constructions, subject and object predicative constructions …

According to an Aristotelian view maintained in modern linguistics, a sentence consists of a
predicate, a subject and some indication of tense. This work attempts a principled and …

For nearly a decade now, the so-called ZISA data of Clahsen, Meisel & Pienemann (1983)
have been the focus of intensive research on the role of Universal Grammar (UG) in second …