Thematic Structure : : Its Role in Grammar / / ed. by Iggy M. Roca.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Atkinson, Martin,; Baker, Mark C.,; Gussenhoven, Carlos,; Hale, Ken,; Hoekstra, Teun,; Hudson, Richard,; Keyser, Samuel Jay,; Laughren, Mary,; Levin, Beth,; Manzini, M. Rita,; Rappaport Hovav, Malka,; Sciullo, Anna-Maria Di,; Smith, John Charles,
• HerausgeberIn: Roca, Iggy M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistic Models ; 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (325 p.)

Table of Contents

• i-iv
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Thematic conditions on syntactic structures: evidence from locative applicatives
• Morphology, semantics and argument structure
• Deverbal compounds and the external argument
• Sentence accents and argument structure
• The syntactic character of thematic structure
• Aspect and Theta Theory
• Raising in syntax, semantics and cognition
• Secondary predication as a diagnostic of underlying structure in Pama-Nyungan languages
• The lexical semantics of verbs of motion: the perspective from unaccusativity
• The projection principle(s): a reexamination
• Circumstantial complements and direct objects in the Romance languages: configuration, Case, and thematic structure
• Author index
• Subject index