Keyword

argument structure

Description: Argument structure is the way a predicate, such as a verb, specifies the number and roles of the participants it relates to in syntax and semantics.

Primary topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (72%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/argument-structure

Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure

1995 · Adele Ε. Goldberg · 6,864

Transitivity in Grammar and Discourse

1980 · Paul J. Hopper, Sandra A. Thompson · Language · 3,364

The Case for Case.

1967 · Charles J. Fillmore · 2,792

English verb classes and alternations: A preliminary investigation. By Beth Levin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Pp. xviii, 345. Cloth $45.00, paper $18.95.

1995 · Carol Tenny · Language · 2,299

Unaccusativity: At the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface

1994 · Beth Levin · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2,195

Severing the External Argument from its Verb

1996 · Angelika Kratzer · Studies in natural language and linguistic theory · 2,007

The architecture of the language faculty . By Ray Jackendoff. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 262. Paper $20.00.

1998 · Jean Aitchison · Language · 1,991

Lexical-functional syntax

2015 · Joan Bresnan, Ash Asudeh, et al. · 1,972

Impersonal Passives and the Unaccusative Hypothesis

1978 · David M. Perlmutter · Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society · 1,903

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The Logical Form of Action Sentences

1967 · Donald Davidson · University of Pittsburgh Press eBooks · 1,624

Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure

1991 · Letitia Naigles · Language and Speech · 1,618

The view from Building 20: Essays in linguistics in honor of Sylvain Bromberger. Edited by Kenneth Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser. (Current studies in linguistics, 24.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 273.

1994 · Michael A. Covington · Language · 1,598

Reference and Proper Names: A Theory of N‐Movement in Syntax and Logical Form, 1994

2013 · Raffaella Zanuttini, Thomas Leu, et al. · 1,586

Prolegomenon to a Theory of Argument Structure

2002 · Ken Hale, Samuel Jay Keyser · The MIT Press eBooks · 1,493

Collostructions: Investigating the interaction of words and constructions

2003 · Anatol Stefanowitsch, Stefan Th. Gries · International Journal of Corpus Linguistics · 1,489

On the nature of grammatical relations . By Alec P. Marantz (Linguistic Inquiry monograph 10.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. Pp. xi, 339. Cloth $25.00, paper $15.00.

1986 · Robin Clark · Language · 1,262

The Discourse Basis of Ergativity

1987 · John W. Du Bois · Language · 1,243

Verb Meaning and the Lexicon

2008 · Gillian Catriona Ramchand · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 1,141

Ergativity

1994 · R. M. W. Dixon · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 1,126

Psych-verbs and ?-theory

1988 · Adriana Belletti, Luigi Rizzi · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory · 1,118

The Penn Discourse TreeBank 2.0.

2008 · Rashmi Prasad, Nikhil Dinesh, et al. · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) · 1,108

Introducing Arguments

2008 · Liina Pylkkänen · The MIT Press eBooks · 1,088

Argument Structure and Morphology

1981 · EDWIN WILLIAMS · The Linguistic Review · 994

The English Resultative as a Family of Constructions

2004 · Adele E. Goldberg, Ray Jackendoff · Language · 941

Argument Realization

2005 · Beth Levin, Malka Rappaport Hovav · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 924

Works count: 18,800

Citation count: 243,800