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Inner Aspect

The Articulation of VP

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  • © 2010

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Authors:
  1. Lisa deMena Travis

    1. Montreal, Canada

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  • Argues for a new phrase structure
  • Presents data from underdocumented languages (in particular Malagasy) to support this view
  • Uses cross-linguistic comparisons to support this view

Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 80)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Lisa deMena Travis
    Pages 1-17

  3. Inner Derived Objects

    • Lisa deMena Travis
    Pages 19-50

  4. Inner Aspect and Event

    • Lisa deMena Travis
    Pages 51-91

  5. Event Structure and Phrase Structure

    • Lisa deMena Travis
    Pages 93-131

  6. Interaction of Objects and Aspect

    • Lisa deMena Travis
    Pages 133-156

  7. L-Syntax and S-Syntax

    • Lisa deMena Travis
    Pages 157-204

  8. The Syntax of Achievements

    • Lisa deMena Travis
    Pages 205-239

  9. Bounds and Coercion

    • Lisa deMena Travis
    Pages 241-274

  10. Conclusion

    • Lisa deMena Travis
    Pages 275-284

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 285-308
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About this book

Finishing this book was one of the most difficult things I have ever done. It took far too long from original idea to page proofs and suffered from being relegated to small corners of my life. It was very rarely on the front burner. Since I started working on this topic in 1991, there has been a lot of interesting work done on the areas of the articulation of VP, phrase structure mirroring event structure, the use of functional categories to represent Aktionsart, and many other areas that the research presented here touches on. The hardest thing about doing a project of this size is to accept that not everyone’s ideas can be addressed and not all new research can be incorporated. The only way that I have found it possible to let this book go to press is to reread the Preface to Events in the Semantics of English by Terence Parsons where he writes, ‘‘The goal of this book is neither completeness nor complete accuracy; it is to get some interesting proposals into the public arena for others to criticize, develop, and build on. ’’ My aim in this book is to make connections between various accounts of various constructions in various languages at the risk of treating each of these too lightly. I am grateful to too many people to thank them individually.

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  • Montreal, Canada

    Lisa deMena Travis

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