Applicative Arguments ― A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation of German and English

In a detailed formal semantic and syntactic analysis of applicative arguments in German and English, Bosse surveys the different types of applicative arguments found in the two languages and provides formal tests and characteristics that differentiate the types. She covers affected experiencers, not-at-issue applicative arguments, benefactives, part-whole applicatives, the dative of inaction, and the co-occurrence of applicatives. The study is revised from her 2011 PhD dissertation at the University of Delaware. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Solveig Bosse received her PhD in linguistics from the University of Delaware. She is currently Assistant Professor of Theoretical Linguistics in the Department of English at East Carolina University. Her research focuses on syntactic and formal semantic analyses of German and English with occasional other cross-linguistic comparisons.