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The Theta System - an Overview
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This article presented an overview of a larger project in progress on the concepts interface, based on the findings in Reinhart (2000), where several of the problems are discussed in greater detail.Abstract:
This paper presents an overview of a larger project in progress on the concepts interface. In part, it is based on the findings in Reinhart (2000), where several of the problems are discussed in greater detail. However, many aspects of the system have been further developed, or changed, since that manuscript.
The general picture I assume is that the Theta system (what has been labeled in Chomsky's Principles and Parameters framework 'Theta theory') is the system enabling the interface between the systems of concepts and the computational system (syntax) and, indirectly (via the syntactic representations), with the semantic inference systems.read more
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Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax
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The Lexicon-Syntax Parameter: reflexivization and other arity operations
Tanya Reinhart,Tal Siloni +1 more
TL;DR: This article showed that a single parameter straightforwardly derives the variation in the array of reflexive verbs and that the parameter is applicable only if the grammar includes an active lexicon, which allows the application of derivational operations.
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The Locative Syntax of Experiencers
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Causation, Obligation, and Argument Structure: On the Nature of Little v
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The syntactic construction of two non-active Voices: Passive and middle
Artemis Alexiadou,Edit Doron +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical characterization of the middle voice as distinct from the passive voice is presented, and the cross-linguistic morphological variation in realizing these two non-active voices in different classes of languages, represented by Hebrew, Greek and English.
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A Semantics for Unaccusatives and its Syntactic Consequences
TL;DR: In this paper, an explicit (truth-conditional) semantics for unaccusative structures in Italian has been proposed, and a new formulation of the aux-selection process in Italian superior to the options currently available.