This work is the culmination of an eighteen-year collaboration between Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser on the study of the syntax of lexical items. It examines t

A linguistic monograph on lexical argument structure.

A new theory of argument structure, based on the syntactic operation Merge and presented through an in-depth analysis of properties of the English passive const

Recent developments in the generative tradition have created new interest in matters of argument structure and argument projection, giving prominence to the dis

Includes papers that explore the issues and re-assess generally accepted premises on the relationship between lexical meaning and the morphosyntax of sentences