Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

(^406) MARY L. NUNES direct argument, are two-argument ACT-based nominals able to override the default ACM interpretation and re ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 407 By way of the semantic macroroles and verb classes, then, and in terms of the U > A ...

(^408) MARY L. NUNES (47) a. The city was destroyed by the enemy. (ACM V) b. the city's destruction by the enemy c. the destruct ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 409 criterion to defend her configurational treatment of object preposing might suggest, an ...

410 MARY L. NUNES to determine how such relations interact with the topical function of the LDP to permit preposing. No single h ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 411 (56) is the only restriction placed on preposing in vNPs headed by such vNs, the direct ...

412 MARY L. NUNES Table 1* Prenominally-permitted Arguments with vNs Capable of Taking Both Macroroles^32 vN Examples Salient At ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 413 Type A nominals in Table 1 comprise a group of vNs which present a particular problem i ...

414 MARY L. NUNES ungrammatical linking of the clausal SUBJ NP to the POSS GF in the vNP, it also complicates the analysis and b ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 415 therefore outrank any thematic relation which is merely typically topical (in terms of ...

416 MARY L. NUNES More commonly, A's — regardless of the thematic roles associated with them — are linked to animate NPs which c ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 417 in which Anderson worked, RRG can give the notion a principled defini­ tion. Affected a ...

418 MARY L. NUNES "result state" is used in Table 2 in the sense defined by Lys and Mommer (1986). They define a RS verb as one ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 419 a performance object. With Type CACTs like investigation (cf. 65d), the delimiting y ar ...

420 MARY L. NUNES (68) a. Sherlock'sA investigation uncovered important evidence that the butler was the murderer. b. Anderson's ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 421 (73) a. EXP's vN (EXP = U/A) b. PAT's vN (PAT = U of RS V/vN)  "PAT's" vN (ACT  arg. ...

422 MARY L. NUNES encoded PATs (cf. fn. 45) and EXPs, on the other hand, are themselves the conditioning factors. In the analysi ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 423 In fact, in LFG and configurational analyses (see Chapters 2 and 3 of Nunes 1990 for di ...

424 MARY L. NUNES theory, or the semantically-(un)restricted GFs of LFG, can be applied to the nominal to effectively articulate ...

ARGUMENT LINKING IN DERIVED NOMINALS 425 It is important to make this assumption explicit since nominal argument structure is n ...