Relevant readings

Atkins, Beryl T., Judy Kegl, and Beth Levin.  1986.  "Explicit and implicit
information in dictionaries."  Lexicon project working papers 12.

Baker, Mark.  In Liliane Haegeman, ed.  The handbook of generative
syntax. [get copy]

Chomsky, Noam.  1965.  Aspects of the theory of syntax.  Cambridge, MA:
MIT, chapter 2:63-127, chapter 4:148-192.

Copestake, Ann and Alex Lascarides.  1997.  Integrating symbolic and
statistical representations: The lexicon pragmatic interface.
Proceedings of ACL-97, EACL97, pp. 136-150.

Dorr, Bonnie J.  1993.  Machine translation:  A view from the
lexicon.  Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press, chapters 4 and 5.

Dowty, David.  1991.  "Thematic proto-roles and argument selection."
Language 67:547-619.

Freidin, Robert.  1997.  Review of Chomsky's _The minimalist
program_.  Language 73:571-582.

Hopper, Paul and Sandra A. Thompson.  1980.  Transitivity in grammar
and discourse."  Language 57:251-295.

Ingria, Robert.  1986.  "Lexical information for parsing systems:
Points of convergence and divergence."  BBN Technical Report.
Originally prepared for The Workshop on Automating the Lexicon, Marina
di Grosset, Italy.

Jackendoff, Ray.  1978.  "Grammar as evidence for conceptual
structure."  M. Halle, J. Bresnan, and G. Miller, eds.  Linguistic
Theory and Psychological Reality.  Cambridge, MA: MIT.

Kemmer, Suzanne.  1994.  Middle voice, transitivity, and the
elaboration of events.  B. Fox and P. J. Hopper (eds.).  Voice: Form
and function.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Levin, Beth.  1993.  "Introduction:  The theoretical perspective."
English verb classes and the lexicon.  Chicago:  University of Chicago
Press, 1-19.

Levin, Beth and Malka Rappaport Hovav.  1995.  The causative
alternation: A probe into lexical semantics and argument structure.
Unaccusativity: At the syntax-lexical semantics interface.  Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press.  Chapter 3, 79-133.

Lidz, Jeffrey.  1997.  The argument structure of verbal reflexicves.
Ms.  University of Pennsylvania (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~jlidz).

Miller, George A.  1986.  "Dictionaries in the mind."  Language and
Cognitive Processes, 1.3:171-185.

Palmer, F. R.  1994.  "Introduction," "Roles and relations," "Passive:
Related and problematic issues." Grammatical roles and relations.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, chapters 1:1-21, 2:22-52,
6:142-175.

Pustejovsky, J. 1991. "The generative lexicon," Computational
Linguistics 17:409-41.

Shibatani, Masayoshi.  1985.  Passives and related constructions:  A
prototype analysis.  Langauge 61.4:821-848.

Stowell, Tim and Eric Wehrli.  1992.  "Introduction."  T. Stowell and
E. Wehrli, eds.  Syntax and the lexicon.  Syntax and semantics, 26.
San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1-7.

Stowell, Tim.  1992.  The role of the lexicon in syntactic theory."
T. Stowell and E. Wehrli, eds.  Syntax and the lexicon.  Syntax and
semantics 26.  San Diego, CA:  Academic Press, 9-20.

Tenny, Carol.  1992.  "The aspectual interface hypothesis."  Ivan Sag
and Anna Szabolcsi, eds.  Lexical matters.  CSLI lecture notes
24:1-27.

Additional readings of interest

Bloom, Paul.  1994.  Possible names: The role of syntax-semantics
mappings in the acquisition of nominals.  Lingua
92:297-329. (acquisition)

Embick, David.  1997.  "Voice systems and the syntax/morphology
interface."  To appear in H. Harley, ed.  The proceedings of the
Penn/MIT workshop on aspect, argument structure and events, May 1997,
MITWPL. (middle, passive, Modern Greek)

Fillmore, Charles J.  1970.  "The grammar of hitting and breaking."
R. A. Jacobs and P. S. Rosenbaum, eds.  Readings in transformational
grammar.  Waltham, MA:  Ginn & Co.

Hale, Kenneth and Samuel Jay Keyser.  1993.  "On argument structure
and the lexical expression of syntactic relations."  In Hale, S. and
Keyser, eds.  The View from building 20 : essays in linguistics in
honor of Sylvain Bromberger.  Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press.

Hale, K. and J. Keyser (1997) ``On The Complex Nature of Simple
Predicators'', in A. Alsina, J. Bresnan, and P. Sells, eds.,
Complex Predicates, CSLI Publications, Stanford University, Stanford,
CA, 29-65. 

  
van Hout Angeliek.  1996.  "Verb frame alternations in Dutch."  Event
semantics of verb frame alternations: A case study of Dutch and its
acquisition.  Ph.D. diss.  Tilburg University, Chapter 2:39-79.

Labelle, Marie.  1992.  "Change of state and valency."  Linguistics
28:375-414.  (causative-inchoative, change of state, (in)transitivity,
reflexivity)

Lidz, Jeffrey.  1995.  Morphological Reflexive-Marking: Evidence from
Kannada Linguistic Inquiry 26.4:705-710. (reflexive:  prior, contrary
view to Lidz above)

Matsumoto, Yo.  1990.  "On the syntax of Japanese `intransitivizing'
-te aru construction."  Michael Ziolkowski and Karen Deaton, eds.
Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistic Society 26:277-291. (syntactic
focus)

Palmer, F. W.  1994.  Grammatical roles and relations.  Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, chapter 7: Antipassive.  (antipassive, incorporation)

Rizzi, Luigi.  1986.  Null objects in Italian and the theory of pro.
Linguistic Inquiry 17.3:501-557. (implicit arguments)

Also see  Linguistic Abstracts Online, 
http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/labs.