Crosslinguistic perspectives on argument structure

"Crosslinguistic perspectives on argument structure" Table Of Contents:

• 1- Introduction / Melissa Bowerman and Penelope Brown
• 2- Verb meaning and verb syntax : cross-linguistic puzzles for language learners
• 3- A person, a place, or a thing? whorfian consequences of syntactic bootstrapping in Mopan Maya / Eve Danziger
• 4- The pitfalls of getting from here to there : bootstrapping the syntax and semantics of motion event coding in Yukatek Mayan / Jürgen Bohnemeyer
• 5- Making sense of complex verbs: on the semantics and argument structure of closed-class verbs and coverbs in jaminjung / Eva Schultze-Berndt
• 6- Figure-ground indeterminacy in descriptions of spatial relations : a construction grammar account / Sotaro Kita
• 7- Learning verbs without boots and straps? the problem of 'give' in Saliba / Anna Margetts
• 8- Participants present and absent : argument ellipsis and verb learning
• 9- Same argument structure, different meanings : learning "put" and "look" in Arrernte / David Wilkins
• 10- Verb specificity and argument realization in Tzeltal child language / Penelope Brown
• 11- Interacting pragmatic influences on children's argument realization / Shanley E.M. Allen
• 12- Transitivity, intransitivity, and their associated meanings : a complex work-space for learnability
• 13- Intransitive verbs in Ewe and the unaccusativity hypothesis / James Essegbey
• 14- He died old dying to be dead right: transitivity and semantic shifts of "die" in Ewe in crosslinguistic perspective / Felix Ameka
• 15- Acquiring telicity cross-linguistically : on the acquisition of telicity entailments associated with transitivity / Angeliekan Hout
• 16- The acquisition of the English causative alternation / Melissa Bowerman and William Croft
• 17- What adverbs have to do with learning the meaning of verbs / Angelika Wittek
• 18- Event realization in Tamil / Eric Pederson.

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