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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1951/59569
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11401/71143
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.en_US
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dc.publisherThe Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
dc.typeDissertation
dcterms.abstractThis dissertation examines the cross-linguistic behavior of Thematic Resultative Expressions in English and Japanese from the viewpoint of syntax-semantics mappings of event aspects, and discusses the source of some of their well-recognized syntactic and syntactico-semantic properties. Thematic Resultative Expressions (e.g. John smashed the cake flat) are known to be subject to the so-called Direct Object Restriction (Levin and Rappaport Hovav 1995), which is not observed among mono-clausal sentences involving other types of secondary predicates. Furthermore, Thematic Resultative Expressions characteristically describe an event with an endpoint, where the state denoted by the secondary predicate (e.g. flat) is understood to be true of the entity referred to by the nominal element only as a consequence of an event denoted by an entire predicate. Interestingly, while Thematic Resultative Expressions in English and Japanese both show the above-mentioned properties, suggesting parallel syntactico-semantic mechanisms are involved in both, they also exhibit different degrees of verbal dependency in regard to aspectual properties; Thematic Resultative Expressions in Japanese are derived exclusively with verbs forming predicates with an intrinsic endpoint, whereas Thematic Resultative Expressions in English may be derived with verbs forming predicates that do not have this aspectual property. I provide a formal syntactic analysis of Thematic Resultative Expressions that incorporates syntax-semantics mappings of event aspects, and explain the different degrees of verbal dependency found in Thematic Resultative Expressions in English and Japanese. I also show how the proposed account of Thematic Resultative Expressions explains the core properties of Thematic Resultative Expressions.
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dcterms.contributorLarson, Richard K.en_US
dcterms.contributorHoberman, Robert D.Finer, Daniel L.Beavers, John T..en_US
dcterms.creatorAsano, Yukiko
dcterms.dateAccepted2013-05-22T17:34:05Z
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dcterms.descriptionDepartment of Linguisticsen_US
dcterms.extent267 pg.en_US
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dcterms.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/1951/59569
dcterms.identifierAsano_grad.sunysb_0771E_11239en_US
dcterms.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11401/71143
dcterms.issued2012-12-01
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dcterms.publisherThe Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
dcterms.subjectLinguistics
dcterms.subjectCross-Linguistic Study, Event Aspects, Resultative, Syntax-Semantics Interface
dcterms.titleThematic Resultative Expressions in English and Japanese: A view from Syntax of Event Aspect
dcterms.typeDissertation


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