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Mapping Lexical Semantics onto Syntactic Structure: The Problem of Unaccusative Mismatches in Romance Languages

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Authors

Legendre, Geraldine; Sorace, Antonella

Issue Date
2003
Publisher
Institute for Cognitive Science, Seoul National University
Citation
Journal of cognitive science, Vol.4 No.1, pp. 43-78
Abstract
The problem of mapping lexical semantics onto syntactic structure became
particularly acute with the Unaccusative Hypothesis (Perlmutter 1978) and its
claim that intransitive verbs divide into two subsets with distinct syntactic
properties. The single argument of unaccusative verbs is an underlying or deep
direct object, and thus displays many syntactic properties of direct objects of
transitive verbs; in contrast, the single argument of unergative verbs is a subject
at all levels of representation, and thus displays the same syntactic behavior as
the subject of transitive verbs. This syntactic difference is typically represented
configurationally as in(1)(1) Intransitive structures (Burzio 1986)
Unergative: NP [yp V]
Unaccusative: [vpV NP]
ISSN
1598-2327
Language
English
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/70738
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