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1、ArgumentRealizationTherelationshipbetweenverbsandtheirargumentsisawidelydebatedtopicinlinguistics.Thiscomprehensivesurveyprovidesanup-to-dateoverviewofthisimportantareaofresearch,exploringcurrenttheoriesofhowaverb’ssemanticscandeterminethemorphosyntacticrealizationofitsar
2、guments.Assumingacloseconnectionbetweenverbmeaningandsyntacticstructure,itprovidesabridgebetweenlexicalsemanticandsyntacticresearch,synthesizingtheresultsofworkfromarangeoflinguisticsubdisciplinesandinavarietyoftheoreticalframeworks.Thefirstfourchapterssurveyleadingtheori
3、esabouteventstructureandcon-ceptualization.Thefifthandsixthchaptersfocusonthemappingfromlexicalsemanticstomorphosyntax,andincludeadetaileddiscussionofthethematichierarchy.Theseventhchapterreviewstreatmentsofmultipleargumentreal-ization.Withusefulbibliographicreferencesand
4、cleardefinitionsofrelevantterms,thisbookwillbeinvaluabletostudentsandresearchersinsyntaxandsemantics,aswellasthoseinrelatedfields.BethLevinisWilliamH.BonsallProfessorintheHumanitiesattheDepart-mentofLinguistics,StanfordUniversity.ShehasheldpositionsattheMITCenterforCognit
5、iveScienceandtheDepartmentofLinguisticsatNorthwest-ernUniversity.SheistheauthorofEnglishVerbClassesandAlternations:APreliminaryInvestigation(1993)andco-authorofUnaccusativity:AttheSyntax–LexicalSemanticsInterface(withMalkaRappaportHovav,1995).MalkaRappaportHovavisProfesso
6、rintheDepartmentofEnglish,theHebrewUniversityofJerusalem.ShehasheldpositionsattheMITCenterforCognitiveScienceandBarIlanUniversity,Israel.Sheistheco-authorofUnac-cusativity:AttheSyntax–LexicalSemanticsInterface(withBethLevin,1995).ResearchSurveysinLinguisticsInlargedomains
7、oftheoreticalandempiricallinguistics,scholarlycommunicationneedsaredirectlycomparabletothoseinanalyticalandnaturalsciences.Conspic-uouslylackingintheinventoryofpublicationsforlinguists,comparedtothoseinthesciences,areconcise,single-authored,non-textbookreviewsofrapidlyevo
8、lv-ingareasofinquiry.ResearchSurveysinLinguisticsisintendedtofillthisgap.Itconsistsofwell-indexe