Applicative arguments : a syntactic and semantic investigation of German and English. Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics ; Vol. 93.

Tadelloses Exemplar. - Introduction -- Defining Applicative Arguments -- Goals and Structure of this Book Preliminaries -- Introduction -- Not-At-Issue Meaning -- Event Semantics -- Pylkk�n (2002, 2008) Affected Experiencers -- Introduction -- Distinguishing Affected Experiencers -- Benefactives (Chapter 5) -- Part-Whole Applicative Arguments (Chapter 6) & Pertinence Datives -- Other German Applicatives -- At-Issue and Not-At-Issue Meaning -- Affected Experiencers -- Pertinence Dative -- Analysis -- Consequences -- Bi-Eventivity -- Again-Modification -- Negation -- Pertinence Dative -- Analysis -- Previous Analyses -- Conclusion -- Verbal Restrictions -- Valency -- Semantic Licensing -- Affected Experiencers following Potts (2005) -- Digression: Parametric Variation of Aff -- Japanese: Attachment Height Variation -- Not-At-Issue Affected Experiencers -- Parametric Variation -- Conclusion -- Not-At-Issue Applicative Arguments -- Introduction -- Ethical Dative Description -- Analysis -- Summary -- Subject Co-Referential Applicative Arguments -- Description -- Features -- Form -- Role of the Direct Object -- Not-At-Issue Meaning -- Analysis -- Consequences -- Previous Analyses -- Summary -- Not-At-Issue Applicatives -- Conclusion Benefactives -- Introduction -- Description -- English -- German -- At-Issue Content -- True Applicative Benefactives -- Analysis -- Consequences -- Verbal Restrictions -- Hole (2005; 20IX) -- Summary -- Recipient Benefactives -- Meaning -- Ditransitives and Benefactives -- Analysis -- Consequences -- Summary -- Prepositional Alternation -- Analysis -- Consequences -- PP-shells -- Conclusion -- Part-Whole Applicatives -- Introduction -- Description -- Differentiating Part-Whole Applicative Arguments -- Characteristics // u.a.m. ISBN 9781433127267