1 INTRODUCTION 2 BACKGROUND 2.1 Properties of the sole argument of intransitive verbs 2.1.1 Object properties ofthe intransitive argument 2.1.2 Subject properties of the intransitive argument 2.1.3 Verbal agreemenl in intransitive clauses 2.2 Argument realization with passivized verbs 2.2.1 Passive.with-se 2.2.2 Periphrastic passive 2.3 Summary 3 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 3.1 The general amework 3.1.1 C.structure and f-structure 3.1.2 Inception of argument structure and argument realization 3.1.3 Syntax from an OT-LFG point of view 3.2 Current mapping theories 3.2.1 Lexical Mapping Theories 3.2.1.1 Standard LMT 3.2.1.2 LMT ofKibort—Findlay 3.2.1.3 Problems with the two LMTs 3.2 .2 Functional Mapping Theory 3.2.3 CaseinLFG 3.3 Summary 4 TOWARDSANEWMAPPINGTHEORY 4.l Argument_to—function mapping theory 4.1.1 Thetheory 4-1.2 Illustration ofthe theory 4.2 Subject—object alternation and verb agreement 4.2.1 Constraints on the subject.object aItemation 4.2.2 Verb agreement 4.3 Passivization and impersonalizatiOn 4.3.1 LFG passiVization and Catalan passive constmctions 4.3.l.1 current approaches tO passivization in LFG 4.3.1.2 Catalan periphrastic passive 4.3.1.3 Catalan reflexive paSSive 4.3.2 LFG impersonalization and Catalan impersonal consuctions 4.3.2.1 Current approaches to impersonalization in LFG 4.3.2.2 Catalan reflexive impersonal 4.3.2.3 Viability of a unified analysis 4.3.3 Summary and further discussion 4.4 Causative as a complex predicate 4.4.1 Catalan general causative constructions 4.4.2 Reflexivization in complex predicates 4.4.3 Summary 4.5 Summary 5 EXTENSlUN OF THE STUDY 5.1 Current analyses of expletives 5.2 Analysis ofexpletive there 5.3 Analysis of propositional expletive it 5.3.1 Against a special propositional mapping principle 5.3.2 Syntactic function ofthe extraposed clause 5.3.3 Propositional it 5.3.4 Comparison with Kim and Sag(2005) 5.4 Summary 6 CONCLUSl0NS REFERENCES
