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Prepositions and Verbs in the Syntax and the Lexicon.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Prepositions and Verbs in the Syntax and the Lexicon./
Author:	Schumacher, Robert Alexander.
Description:	1 online resource (206 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-08A(E).
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355824926

Prepositions and Verbs in the Syntax and the Lexicon.
Schumacher, Robert Alexander.

Prepositions and Verbs in the Syntax and the Lexicon. - 1 online resource (206 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

Natural languages provide structures for predication. Predication minimally involves a predicate (the verb) and a number of arguments. The number of arguments that a verb co-occurs with defines one of its primary characteristics: transitivity. In much of contemporary linguistic theory, the structural relationship between a verb and its external and internal argument(s) is generally consistent across verbs of all types (e.g, process verbs, activity verbs, inter alia ). Syntactic operations and critical relations (e.g, case and theta roles) are therefore mediated for every verb in the same way. In other words, internal arguments will always originate with the same structural relationship to the verb, as will external arguments, and they will always receive case and theta roles in the same way, all else being equal.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355824926Subjects--Topical Terms:

557829
Linguistics.
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554714
Electronic books.

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520 $a Natural languages provide structures for predication. Predication minimally involves a predicate (the verb) and a number of arguments. The number of arguments that a verb co-occurs with defines one of its primary characteristics: transitivity. In much of contemporary linguistic theory, the structural relationship between a verb and its external and internal argument(s) is generally consistent across verbs of all types (e.g, process verbs, activity verbs, inter alia ). Syntactic operations and critical relations (e.g, case and theta roles) are therefore mediated for every verb in the same way. In other words, internal arguments will always originate with the same structural relationship to the verb, as will external arguments, and they will always receive case and theta roles in the same way, all else being equal.
520 $a This dissertation concerns a class of verbs in which all else is not equal. Through a corpus study, it is demonstrated that a class of verbs ( exotransitive verbs) exist where an obligatorily present internal argument is taken by a preposition. The preposition is rigidly designated by the verb, and it is argued on that basis of a sentence processing study that the verb contains all of the information about the preposition in its lexical entry. The lexical relationship between the preposition and an exotransitive verb allows for their structural assimilation to transitive verbs more broadly through a reconsideration of the structure of transitivity. The occurrence of the preposition is explained on the one hand by the contribution of its morphosyntactic features to the periphrastic verb-preposition expression, and on the other hand by an implicit association between prepositions and transitivity. This association is demonstrated with an artificial language learning experiment.
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