Chapter 3. What’s up with dative experiencers?
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Antonio Fábregas
Abstract
In this paper we discuss the argument structure of psych verbs in connection with information structure, particularly object experiencer psych verbs (OEPVs), which select an accusative and/or dative argument. We propose that the natural order available in all-focus sentences for dative OEPVs is OVS, whereas the order for accusative OEPVs is SVO. Any rearrangement of these two patterns is caused by a different information structure interpretation.
Abstract
In this paper we discuss the argument structure of psych verbs in connection with information structure, particularly object experiencer psych verbs (OEPVs), which select an accusative and/or dative argument. We propose that the natural order available in all-focus sentences for dative OEPVs is OVS, whereas the order for accusative OEPVs is SVO. Any rearrangement of these two patterns is caused by a different information structure interpretation.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword ix
- Chapter 1. Modality, presupposition and discourse 1
- Chapter 2. Exempt anaphors and logophoricity in French 15
- Chapter 3. What’s up with dative experiencers? 29
- Chapter 4. Aktionsart and event modification in Spanish adjectival passives 49
- Chapter 5. Revising the canon 63
- Chapter 6. Hiatus resolution in L1 and L2 Spanish 79
- Chapter 7. Recursion in Brazilian Portuguese complex compounds 97
- Chapter 8. Locality constraints on θ-theory 111
- Chapter 9. Does gender agreement carry a production cost? 127
- Chapter 10. TP ellipsis with polarity particles 141
- Chapter 11. Circumventing ɸ-minimality 159
- Chapter 12. Epistemic uses of the verb decir in La Paz Spanish 185
- Chapter 13. Oral Portuguese in Maputo from a diachronic perspective 199
- Chapter 14. Structural approaches to code-switching 213
- Chapter 15. When a piece of phonology becomes a piece of syntax 235
- Chapter 16. Presence of the voiced labiodental fricative segment [v] in Texas Spanish 259
- Index 275
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword ix
- Chapter 1. Modality, presupposition and discourse 1
- Chapter 2. Exempt anaphors and logophoricity in French 15
- Chapter 3. What’s up with dative experiencers? 29
- Chapter 4. Aktionsart and event modification in Spanish adjectival passives 49
- Chapter 5. Revising the canon 63
- Chapter 6. Hiatus resolution in L1 and L2 Spanish 79
- Chapter 7. Recursion in Brazilian Portuguese complex compounds 97
- Chapter 8. Locality constraints on θ-theory 111
- Chapter 9. Does gender agreement carry a production cost? 127
- Chapter 10. TP ellipsis with polarity particles 141
- Chapter 11. Circumventing ɸ-minimality 159
- Chapter 12. Epistemic uses of the verb decir in La Paz Spanish 185
- Chapter 13. Oral Portuguese in Maputo from a diachronic perspective 199
- Chapter 14. Structural approaches to code-switching 213
- Chapter 15. When a piece of phonology becomes a piece of syntax 235
- Chapter 16. Presence of the voiced labiodental fricative segment [v] in Texas Spanish 259
- Index 275
