%0 Journal Article
%T Goal-Source Asymmetry and Russian Spatial Prefixes
%A Evgenia Markovskaya
%J Nordlyd : Troms£¿ University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics / Institutt for Spr£¿k og Litteratur, Universitetet i Troms£¿
%D 2006
%I University of Troms?
%X In this paper, I draw on data from Russian to argue for the asymmetry between Goal and Source prepositional phrases. Source prepositional phrases are structurally ambiguous; they can occur both as arguments and adjuncts in certain syntactic contexts. Goal prepositional phrases are unambiguously arguments. I claim that Source prepositions have lexically specified semantics, which determines their relative structural freedom; whereas Goal prepositions are derived from locative prepositions when the building of the event structure takes place and therefore they are bound to be the arguments of the verb.
%K syntax
%K morphosyntax
%K Goal
%K Source
%K Goal-Source Asymmetry
%K prefix
%K event structure
%K telicity
%K Russian
%K the Case
%K split PP fronting
%K Identity Condition
%K adjunct
%K lexical
%K super-lexical prefixes
%K open space entities
%K Slavic prefix
%U http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/81