Encoding Complex Events in Hindi and English
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چکیده
Traditionally. the syntax-semantics interface has been characterized by the projection of verb arguments onto the level of syntax based on (lexical semantic) information associated with the verb (Jackendoff, 1990; Levin, 1993; Van Valin, 1993). The assumption in current approaches is that the rules linking arguments to syntactic positions are universal. This implies that verbs with similar lexical semantic specifications across languages map onto a similar set of basic syntactic configurations. Cross-linguistic variation in the mapping of “equivalent” verbs is handled by assuming that these verbs differ in their lexical semantic specifications.
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