Jeffrey Lidz, IRCS, University of Pennsylvania
This paper examines a valency puzzle among change of state (COS) verbs in Kannada whose solution implicates a model of grammar in which syntactic structure is not projected from the meaning of a verb, but rather is generated independent of lexical information. The syntax and the lexicon must ultimately meet certain correspondence conditions in order for a sentence to be grammatical. The analysis of COS verbs also leads to an analysis of the verbal reflexive which entails that morphology applies to the output of the syntactic derivation.