Event Structure and Verbal Decomposition

G. Ramchand
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This chapter explores the relationship between constrained semantic representations of events, and structured syntactic representations that express them. I show that these representations track each other systematically, and that argument structure generalizations emerge in lock-step with these structures. I therefore propose a system in which those generalizations follow from the following general principles of structural interpretation: (i) embedding corresponds to the cause/leads to relation; (ii) each subevental structure is related potentially to a participant NP; (iii) event-recursion is limited to structures with at most one dynamic predication per event phase. The maximal subevental structure consists of a stative predication embedding a dynamic one, and the dynamic one in turn embedding a stative one. This structure and its proper subsets exhaust the event types built by the grammar. These principles ensure the relative prominence of the different argument positions as well as specific entailments for the different positions.
事件结构与言语分解
本章探讨了事件的约束语义表示和表达事件的结构化语法表示之间的关系。我展示了这些表征系统地相互跟踪,论证结构的概括与这些结构同步出现。因此,我提出了一个系统,其中这些概括遵循以下结构解释的一般原则:(I)嵌入对应于原因/导致关系;(ii)每个子结构都潜在地与一个参与者NP相关;(iii)事件递归仅限于每个事件阶段最多有一个动态预测的结构。最大子结构由静态预测嵌入动态预测,动态预测又嵌入静态预测组成。此结构及其适当的子集耗尽了由语法构建的事件类型。这些原则确保了不同论证立场的相对突出性,以及不同立场的具体蕴涵。
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