Event Semantics of Verb Frame Alternations

Download or read book Event Semantics of Verb Frame Alternations written by Angeliek Van Hout and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using both theoretical and language acquisition arguments, this study proposes a new model of the lexicon-syntax interface defined in terms of checking event-semantic features. The research is based on Dutch verbs and their possible verb frames (intransitive, transitive, etc.) and two studies of children's Dutch. The model developed from these cases represents more generally the way in which Universal Grammar organizes the lexicon of a language and the mapping system that associates a verb's lexical features with its syntactic projection.