Seminar in Lexical Semantics: Objecthood

An examination of the syntactic and semantic dimensions of objecthood from theoretical, typological, and empirical perspectives. The treatment of objects in different theoretical frameworks, including whether there is a primitive notion of 'object'. Potential topics include: double object constructions, cognate and location objects, nonselected objects, differential object marking, unaccusativity, as well as semantic correlates of objecthood such as affectedness and telicity. May be repeated for credit with different content. Prerequisites: Linguist 222A or 232A or permission of the instructor.