Reviews for Unaccusativity: At the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface

The average rating for Unaccusativity: At the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-06-10 00:00:00 Dennis Reis I was looking around for this great quote of Freeman Dyson's:Dirac had a weird version of quantum theory in which every state had probability either plus two or minus two. Probability, as common sense defines it, is a number between zero and one expressing our degree of confidence that an event will happen. Probability one means that the event always happens; probability zero means that it never happens. In Dirac's Alice-in-Wonderland world, every state happens either more often than always or less often than never.That's an awesome quote which doesn't get nearly as much play as it deserves. Anyway, I stumbled upon Chris Barker's page at the NYU Department of Linguistics, and was pretty thoroughly impressed (despite being bloodsworn to loathe NYU; there's a petulant and uninteresting story about a girl here). The table of contents, with excerpts like:6. Jacobson Direct Compositionality and Variable Free Semantics: the Case of "Principle B" Effects 7. Caponigro & Heller The Non Concealed Nature of Free Relatives: Implications for Connectivity in Specificational Sentences 8. Romero Connectivity in a Unified Analysis of Specificational Subjects and Concealed Questions 9. Bhatt & Pancheva Degree Quantifiers, Position of Merger Effects with their Restrictors, and Conservativity 10. Sharvit Two Reconstruction Puzzlesis promisingly bewildering (what the devil is a merger effect?) yet also disturbingly familiar enough to inspire worry -- what if everyone else in my lab already knows about and makes rakish use of "free relatives"? Ahh, professional research: all the wide-eyed wonder of childhood, now with fearful glances over your shoulder...and running Nx faster means the herd's now working on N+1.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-06-30 00:00:00 Shawn Oconnor The problem: I just can't keep my attention on this. Abandoned, this day of 3 August 2013.