This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on argument structure and its role in language acquisition. The volume is the outcome of an integrated r

The topic of this collection is argument structure. The fourteen chapters in this book are divided into four parts: Semantic and Syntactic Properties of Event S

Preferred Argument Structure offers a profound insight into the relationship between language use and grammatical structure. In his original publication on Pref

This book investigates the systematic correspondences between syntactic structure and semantic interpretation in the domain of predicate-argument relationships.

In her Beijing lectures, Melissa Bowerman presents a lucid introduction and account of her research on a range of topics: how children acquire the semantics of