This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on argument structure and its role in language acquisition. The volume is the outcome of an integrated r

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

Preferred Argument Structure offers a profound insight into the relationship between language use and grammatical structure. In his original publication on Pref

The present volume draws together contributions from a number of scholars with an interest in empirical, cross-linguistic description. Most of the papers were f

This book investigates the systematic correspondences between syntactic structure and semantic interpretation in the domain of predicate-argument relationships.