Proto-Properties and Grammatical Encoding: A Correspondence Theory of Argument Selection (original) (raw)

Completing this book has taken more time than either of us ever intended, but it has also taught us more than either of us ever imagined it would. During its development we have incurred numerous debts to enormously helpful and encouraging colleagues. Special gratitude, of course, is owed to David Dowty who was elaborately responsive to all of our inquiries and thereby helped illuminate several issues which would otherwise have remained obscured to us. We can only hope that some of the moves we've made accord in some ways with his own analytic intuitions about extensions to his original proposal. Jean-Pierre Koenig, Hana Filip and Mark Gawron have all read drafts of the entire manuscript and their extensive comments led to important modifications and clarifications. We are grateful to them all. Various aspects of this research were enriched by discussions with Judith Aissen,

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