The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. The Unaccusative Hypothesis has provided a rich context for debating whether syntactic behavior is semantically or lexically determined, the consequence of syntactic context, or a combination of these factors. No consensus has been reached. This book combines new approaches to the subject with several papers that have achieved a significant status, though formally unpublished.

• Series editors' preface


• Introduction


• 1: Gennaro Chierchia: A Semantics for unaccusatives and its syntactic consequences


• 2: Angeliek van Hout: Unaccusativity as telicity checking


• 3: Hans Bennis: Unergative adjectives and psych-verbs


• 4: Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou: Voice morphology in the causative-inchoative alternation: evidence for a non unified structural analysis of unaccusatives


• 5: David Embick: Unaccusative syntax and verbal alternations


• 6: Tanya Reinhart and Tal Siloni: Against an unaccusative analysis of reflexives


• 7: Markus Steinbach: Unaccusatives and anticausatives in German


• 8: Maaike Schoorlemmer: Syntactic unaccusativity in Russian


• 9: Antonella Sorace: Gradience at the lexicon-syntax interface: evidence from auxiliary selection


• 10: Tonjes Veenstra: Unaccusativity in Saramaccan: the syntax of resultatives


• 11: Hagit Borer: The grammar machine


• 12: Janet Randall, Angeliek van Hout, Juergen Weissenborn and Harald Baayen: Acquiring unaccusativity: a cross-linguistic look


• Index