Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Preface. One: Linking Syntactic Argument Positions and Aspectual Roles. 1.1. Introduction and Theoretical Background. 1.2. Direct Internal Arguments. 1.3. Indirect Internal Arguments. 1.4. External Arguments. The Non-Measuring Constraint on External Arguments. 1.5. Aspectual Roles. 1.6. The Aspectual Interface Hypothesis. Notes. Two: Event Structure and Aspectual Roles. 2.1. The Event Nucleus. 2.2. Syntactic Processes Sensitive to the Event Nucleus. 2.3. The Special Status of Arguments in Aspectual Structure. Notes. Three: Lexical Conceptual Structures and Aspectual Roles. 3.1. Lexical Conceptual Structure. 3.2. The Relation between Lexical Conceptual Structures and Aspectual Roles. 3.3. Some Phenomena Illustrating the Modularity of Lexical Conceptual Structures and Aspectual Roles. Notes. References. Name Index. Language Index. Subject Index.