Arguments and Structure: Studies on the Architecture of the Sentence / Edition 1

by Teun Hoekstra, Rint Sybesma, Sjef Barbiers, Marcel Den Dikken, Jenny Doetjes

Overview

This book contains 14 articles by Teun Hoekstra (1953-1998) on core issues in syntactic theory. Some articles focus on the structure of DP, others on the structure of the sentence as a whole, while others still deal explicitly with the parallels between the two. The papers are distributed over four sections: "Argument structure", "T-chains", "The morpho-syntax of verbal and nominal projections" and "Small clauses". More than half of the articles in this book are published here for the first time or appear for the first time in English.

Hoekstra's work is characterized by a fundamental interest in the central questions of syntactic theory, most notably the relation between argument structure and X-bar structure. This concentrated interest led to a deep understanding of the notion of transitivity, with respect to both the status of the external argument and that of the internal argument, where "status" refers to both the content and the licensing. In this collection of papers, Hoekstra reports on his insights in these matters.

As far as content and licensing of the external argument is concerned, this collection contains papers on the relation between passives and their active counterparts, the parallels between possessives and transitives and the differences and similarities between past participles and infinitives. As to the internal argument, we find papers addressing sentential complementation, verbal affixation and resultatives. And there is a whole section on tense, and its role in keeping the sentence together.

One of the papers in this collection is Hoekstra's classic, but hitherto unpublished "Small clauses everywhere" (more than 70 pages), which summarizes Hoekstra's views on such issues as resultatives, particle verbs and double object constructions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110179538
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	12/16/2004
Series:	Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , #67
Pages:	431
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sjef Barbiers is Researcher at the Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Jenny Doetjes is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Linguistics at Utrecht, Netherlands.

Marcel den Dikken is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics at the CU New York, USA.

Gertjan Postma is Researcher at the University of Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Rint Sybesma is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Leiden, Netherlands.

Guido J. Vanden Wyngaerd teaches at the Department of binnen Germanic Languages and Linguistics at the KU Brussels, Belgium.

Editorial Reviews

"[...] this collection of Hoekstra's writing seems not only interesting, but also useful reading for contemporary researchers, since both the problems and ideas discussed in this volume are very far from being outdated."
Pavel Grashchenkov in: Linguist List 16.2534

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