Linking

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction.- A Phenomenon and a Principle: The Isomorphic Linking Hypothesis – Representations - The Competition - Advantages of this Proposal - Going Forward.- Part I A Geometric Theory of Linking – 1. Conceptual Structure – Motivating Conceptual Structure: A Review of the Problems with Theta Grids – Representing Arguments and Satisfying the Theta Criterion – Building Conceptual Structure Representations – Argument Fusion and Selection – Constraining Fusion: The Prohibition Against Double Fusion – Streamlining the Set of CS Primitives – Argument Structure: The Interface Projection from CS.- 2 Eliminating the Direct/Indirect Internal Argument Distinction – Reasons to Eliminate Indirect Arguments – Apparent Problems and Their Solutions – Syntactic Category – Linear Order – Lexical Rules – Summary .- 3. Explaining Linking Regularities – A New Linking Proposal: The Isomorphic Linking Hypothesis – Causative Verbs – Simple Causative Verbs – Productive “double agent” Causative Verbs – Comparing the ILH to Other Linking Theories – The Thematic Hierarchy Hypothesis (THH) – The Uniformity of Theta Assignment Hypothesis (UTAH) – Why the ILH Is a Better Linking Theory than THH and UTAH – Unaccusative and Unergative Verb Linking and Some Linking Predictions – Unaccusative Verb Linking – Unergative Verb Linking – Some Linking Predictions – Some Problematic Verb Classes – Summary: The Linking Theory So Far.- 4. Syntactically Unexpressed Arguments, Incorporation, and Adjuncts – Implicit Argument Verbs and Implications for Lexical Entries – Implicit Theme Verbs: cook, eat, drink – More Implicit Theme Verbs: rain and snow – Implicit PLACE verbs: deliver (Concrete PLACE) and transform (Abstract PLACE) – Incorporated Argument Verbs – Incorporated Theme Verbs and Adjunct Fusion: butter and bone – MoreIncorporated Theme Verbs: ticket, leaflet, stone, gas – Incorporated Concrete PLACE Verbs: bag, box, bottle, file, shelve – Coindexed Argument Verbs and the Bound Argument Condition on Linking - Delinked CS Arguments: Mismatches Introduced By Word-Formation Rules – Delinked External Arguments: Passive Verbs, Middle Verbs and Deverbal Nominals – Delinked Internal Arguments: Reciprocal Verbs and Reflexive Verbs – Maintaining the Argument/Adjunct Distinction in Light of Selected Adjuncts – Syntactic Arguments – Adjuncts – Tests for the Argument/Adjunct Distinction – Additional Justifications for the Argument/Adjunct Distinction.- 5. The Linking of Resultative Verbs: Clausal Fusion – The Conceptual Structure of Resultative Verbs – The Argument Structure of Resultative Verbs – The Argumenthood of the Result XP – The Argumenthood of the Postverbal NP – The Linking of Resultative Verbs and a Better Linking Theory – The Linking of the Inherited Arguments and a Relativized Isomorphic Linking Hypothesis – A New Kind of AS-CS Mismatch: Nonlinking Themes – Clausal Fusion: Interpreting the Unlinked Theme.- 6. The Prohibition Against Double Fusion – Deriving Resultative Mismatches from the Prohibition Against Double Fusion – Independent Evidence for the Prohibition Against Double Fusion – Passive by-phrases and Agent Subjects – With-Themes and Theme Direct Objects – PP Locations and Locative Direct Objects – The Prohibition Against Double Fusion Versus Jackendoff’s (1990) Constraints on Adjunct Rules – The Prohibition Against Double Fusion and the Theta Criterion – Against an Alternative CS for Resultatives: The Means Analysis (Jackendoff, 1990) – Jackendoff’s First Argument for the Means Analysis and a Refutation: The Actor Test – Jackendoff’s Second Argument for the Means Analysis and a Refutation: “X’s Way” – One Argument in Favor of the Agent Analysis: Unaccusative Verbs – A Second