This work is the culmination of an eighteen-year collaboration between Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser on the study of the syntax of lexical items. It examines t
This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of grammatical relations and argument structure in the languages of Europe and North and Cent
The topic of this collection is argument structure. The fourteen chapters in this book are divided into four parts: Semantic and Syntactic Properties of Event S
Recent developments in the generative tradition have created new interest in matters of argument structure and argument projection, giving prominence to the dis