Info for readers
Info for authors
Info for editors
Info for libraries
Order form
Shopping cart
Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Schäfer
40-48 (complete pdf)
This paper focuses on instrument subjects. It shows that instruments are acceptable as subjects crosslinguistically under two interpretations, that of an Agent and that of a Causer. In doing this, the general point is that the distinction between the two theta roles Agent and Causer is syntactically reflected. The closer look at instrument subjects provides us also with hints as to what it means to be an Agent or a Causer.
Published in:
Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Donald Baumer, David Montero, and Michael Scanlon
Table of contents
ISBN 978-1-57473-415-7 library binding
vii+461 pages
publication date: 2006
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA