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 …

Over the past few decades, presupposition and implicature have risen to a pre‐eminent
place in semantics and pragmatics. They are now among the most trusted and widely …

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 …

This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing
(Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized …

Since entering the linguistic stage in the late sixties, Davidsonian event semantics has taken
on an important role in linguistic theorizing. Davidson's (1967) central claim is that events …

A sentence in the Resultative perfect licenses two inferences:(a) the occurrence of an event
(b) the state caused by this event obtains at evaluation time. In this paper I show that this use …

This paper describes the CoreGram project, a multilingual grammar engineering project that
develops HPSG grammars for several typologically diverse languages that share a common …

Some syntactic approaches to argument structure posit small clause constituents to
represent what they take to be the semantics of the constructions being analyzed. For …

In this article, I propose that intransitive verbs and stative, transitive verbs are fundamentally
different from non-stative, transitive verbs. The latter create verb phrases that contain more …

The present article is an explorative study concerned with the elusiveness of certain
connectives (discourse particles), intralinguistically and across languages: the fact that one …