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The Unaccusativity Puzzle: Explorations of the Syntax-Lexicon Interface

Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou, and Martin Everaert

Print publication date: 2004

Print ISBN-13: 9780199257652

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199257652.001.0001

Introduction

Chapter:
(p. 1 ) Introduction
Source:
The Unaccusativity Puzzle
Author(s):

Artemis Alexiadou

Elena Anagnostopoulou (Contributor Webpage)

Martin Everaert (Contributor Webpage)

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199257652.003.0001

This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of issues in the study of the unaccusative hypothesis. It then discusses phenomena which have been taken to be sensitive to unaccusativity, unaccusativity mismatches, and the lexicon-syntax interface. An overview of the subsequent chapters is presented.

Keywords:   unaccusative hypothesis, unaccusativity, lexicon, syntax, mismatches

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