Exploring Interfaces

"This book presents contributions to the study of interfaces that have been shaped and inspired in profound ways by Maria Luisa Zubizarreta's research program. Over the past four decades, Zubizarreta's work has pioneered analyses where the notion of interfaces (or levels of representation) played an essential role. Her research has fundamentally shaped the direction of Romance linguistics and generative grammar over this period. Her first book (Zubizarreta, 1987) explored in some detail issues related to the internal organization of the lexicon and its relationship to syntax. In her third book (Zubizarreta & Oh, 2007), the relationship between a constructional approach to meaning and the lexicon was further investigated by studying how verbal and predicate meaning components, such as manner and motion, articulate in Germanic, Korean, and Romance"--