This book sheds new light on the puzzle of psychological predicates in a cross-linguistic perspective by looking at them from a variety of angles at the interfaces between event structure, lexical and viewpoint aspect, syntax and information structure. The individual chapters focus on Polish and… read more
In this chapter it is argued, on the basis of the evidence from Polish, that the traditional Vendlerian classification of verbs is insufficient to accommodate Polish psych verbs. It is demonstrated that Polish perfective psych verbs are initial boundary events, different from final boundary… read more
The main reason why this book is important for current linguistic debates is the fact that the puzzle of psychological verbs, dating back to the seminal paper by Belletti and Rizzi (1988) (henceforth B&R) is far from being settled. Recently it has been gaining even more attention, with research… read more
