Dissertation: Two Types of Unaccusatives: Evidence from Northern Italian Dialects

该补助金资助北方意大利某些方言句法的论文研究。通过在意大利的实地考察，学生将收集几种不同动词类型的数据。主要的方言是在皮埃蒙特省使用的Borgomanerese。在这种方言中，某些意义相似的不及物动词具有独特的句法特征，使它们有别于其他所有动词。这些特性以前没有被注意到，因为Borgomanerese是一种很少被研究的方言。这类独特的动词所共有的特殊性质是语言学所感兴趣的，因为它们构成了支持这一假设的证据，该假设的动机来自其他语言的事实，即动词意义的某些方面与句法结构有关。

This grant funds dissertation research on the syntax of certain dialects spoken in Northern Italy. By field work in Italy, the student will collect data on several different verb types. The main dialect of interest is Borgomanerese, spoken in the province of Piedmont. In this dialect certain intransitive verbs which share similar meanings have distinct syntactic properties which distinguish them from all other verbs. These properties have gone previously unnoticed because Borgomanerese is a very little studied dialect. The special properties that this distinct class of verbs shares are of interest to linguistics because they constitute evidence in favor of the hypothesis, motivated by facts from other languages, which claims that certain aspects of verb meaning are relevant to syntactic structure.