Contribution to Book
Severing the External Argument from its Verb
Phrase Structure and the Lexicon
(1996)
Abstract
The paper argues that external arguments of verbs are not true arguments of their verbs, but are introduced by an independent head, the Voice head. This was my first paper arguing that part of a verb's argument structure is syntactically constructed, relying on a Davidsonian (or semi-neo-Davidsonian) event semantics.
Keywords
- External arguments,
- argument structure
Disciplines
Publication Date
1996
Editor
Johan Rooryck & Laurie Zaring
Publisher
Kluwer/Springer
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Citation Information
Angelika Kratzer. "Severing the External Argument from its Verb" DordrechtPhrase Structure and the Lexicon (1996) p. 109 - 137 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/angelika_kratzer/42/