Hidden universal quantification and change of argument structure in particle- verb constructions

On Lexical Structure and Syntactic Projection

Donald Davidson’s classic argument that action sentences involve an event place in their argument structure receives important evidence from the overt syntax of Chinese genitive agent constructions, possessive object constructions, and sentences with expressions of event quantification that apparently occupy the syntactic position of objectual modifiers. These constructions present syntax-seman...

EFL learners' learning of English verb argument structure

Introduction to the Verb-particle Experience: Semantics, Argument Structure and Morphology

This book is about those Germanic verbal constructions variously referred ...

Introducing Arguments

Verbal arguments can be divided into two different types: those that are true arguments of the verb and those that are "additional" in the sense that there is evidence that they do not belong to the basic argument structure of the verb. Theories of argument structure are largely theories about how these additional arguments are introduced, but at present few such theories propose explicit mecha...

L1 Transfer in L2 Acquisition of the There-Insertion Construction by Mandarin EFL Learners

This study examined the role of the native language (L1) transfer in a non-native language (L2) acquisition of the there-insertion construction at the syntax-semantics interface. Specifically, the study investigated if Mandarin EFL learners would make overgeneralization errors in the situation where an L1 argument structure constitutes a superset of its L2 counterpart. Verbs of existence and ap...