Hoekstra Teun. Arguments and Structure: Studies on the Architecture of the Sentence

Mouton de Gruyter, — 2004. — xv, 416 pages. — ISBN: 3110179539.This book contains fourteen articles (co-authored) by the Dutch generative linguist Teun Hoekstra. In 1998, when he died at the age of 45, Teun was widely considered to be one of the leading syntacticians in the field. This volume confirms that indeed he was.As to the breadth of his work, Teun has made important contributions to the development of theoretical insights into such diverse topics as: argument structure, complementation, transitivity, predication, small clause theory, tense, lexical decomposition, nominalizations, bracketing paradoxes, etc. This book contains papers representative of all these subjects. The only topic that Teun worked on that is entirely missing from this volume is child language (for no other reasons than limitations of space). As to the depth, all papers in this volume are ground breaking in one way or another. What is more, despite the fact that some of these papers are 10 to 20 years old, and were ground breaking at the time, they are still highly relevant to current theorizing. Teun’s views on tense (10 years old), on the relation between active and passive voice (15 years old) and on resultatives (20 years old) are by no means outdated.Argument structure
Possession and transitivity
The indirect object: its status and place
Categories and arguments
The active-passive configuration
Verbal affixation
T-chains
Why Kaatje was not heard sing a song (with Hans Bennis)
T-chains and auxiliaries (with Jacqueline Guéron)
Clitics in Romance and the study of head-movement
ECP, tense and islands
The morphosyntax of nominal and verbal constituents
Bracketing paradoxes do not exist
(with Harry van der Hulst and Frans van der Putten)
The nominal infinitive (with Pim Wehrmann)
Parallels between nominal and verbal projections
Small clauses
Complex verbs (with Monic Lansu and Marion Westerduin)
Small clauses everywhere