Thematic Structure: Its Role in Grammar

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction / Atkinson, Martin -- Thematic conditions on syntactic structures: evidence from locative applicatives / Baker, Mark C. -- Morphology, semantics and argument structure / Booij, Geert -- Deverbal compounds and the external argument / Sciullo, Anna-Maria Di -- Sentence accents and argument structure / Gussenhoven, Carlos -- The syntactic character of thematic structure / Hale, Ken / Keyser, Samuel Jay -- Aspect and Theta Theory / Hoekstra, Teun -- Raising in syntax, semantics and cognition / Hudson, Richard -- Secondary predication as a diagnostic of underlying structure in Pama-Nyungan languages / Laughren, Mary -- The lexical semantics of verbs of motion: the perspective from unaccusativity / Levin, Beth / Rappaport Hovav, Malka -- The projection principle(s): a reexamination / Manzini, M. Rita -- Circumstantial complements and direct objects in the Romance languages: configuration, Case, and thematic structure / Smith, John Charles -- Author index -- Subject index