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Parameters in Old French Syntax: Infinitival Complements
Infinitival Complements
Av E.H. Pearce
Inbunden, 1990
1692 kr
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1.1. AIMS AND ASSUMPTIONS This book presents an analysis of infinitival complement constructions in Old French (OF) from the perspective of the Government-Binding (GB) framework. It aims, therefore, to establish within the terms of the GB framework just how the OF constructions are to be …
Parameters in Old French Syntax: Infinitival Complements
Infinitival Complements
Av E.H. Pearce
Häftad, 1990
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1.1. AIMS AND ASSUMPTIONS This book presents an analysis of infinitival complement constructions in Old French (OF) from the perspective of the Government-Binding (GB) framework. It aims, therefore, to establish within the terms of the GB framework just how the OF constructions are to be …
Order and Constituency in Mandarin Chinese
Inbunden, 1990
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Recent developments in generative grammar have been very stimulating. The current theory defines a small set of principles that apply to all human languages. Efforts have been made to demonstrate the adequacy of this theory for a wide range of languages. We thus see an interesting interface of …
Essays on Restrictiveness and Learnability
Av H. Lasnik
Inbunden, 1990
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The articles collected in this book are concerned with the issues of restrictiveness and learnability within generative grammar, specifically, within Chomsky's 'Extended Standard Theory'. These issues have been central to syntactic research for decades and they are even more central now as results …
Essays on Restrictiveness and Learnability
Av H. Lasnik
Häftad, 1990
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The articles collected in this book are concerned with the issues of restrictiveness and learnability within generative grammar, specifically, within Chomsky's 'Extended Standard Theory'. These issues have been central to syntactic research for decades and they are even more central now as results …
Representation and Derivation in the Theory of Grammar
Inbunden, 1991
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Derivation or Representation? Hubert Haider & Klaus Netter 1 The Issue Derivation and Representation - these keywords refer both to a conceptual as well as to an empirical issue. Transformational grammar was in its outset (Chomsky 1957, 1975) a derivational theory which characterized a well-formed …
Warlpiri Morpho-Syntax
A Lexicalist Approach
Av J. Simpson
Inbunden, 1991
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Warlpiri is a Pama-Nyungan language (Ngarrka group) spo- ken by over 3,000 people in Central Australia. Neighbour- ing languages (all Pama-Nyungan) include its closest relatives, Warlmanpa and Ngardily, to the north-east and west respec- tively, Warumungu (Warumungic) and the Arandic languages, …
Syntactic Variables
Resumptive Pronouns and A′ Binding in Palauan
Inbunden, 1991
1130 kr
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This book represents the culmination of an extended period of field work on the Palauan language, carried out while I was a graduate student at the University of California at San Diego. The book was born as a short term paper written in 1982; from a forgettable infancy, that paper grew and grew, …
Views on Phrase Structure
Inbunden, 1991
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O. PRELIMINARY REMARKS Initial drafts of the papers in this collection were presented in a con ference entitled 'Views on Phrase Structure', held at the University of Florida, Gainesville, in March, 1989. Eleven of the twenty-three partici pants in the conference were able to contribute to this …
Licensing Theory and French Parasitic Gaps
Av C.R. Tellier
Häftad, 1991
569 kr
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The study of parasitic gap constructions (e. g. these are the reports; which you corrected _; before filing _i) has been a very lively area of research over the last decade. The impetus behind this lies mostly in the margi nality of the construction. Clearly, the intuitions that native speakers …
Japanese Syntax and Semantics
Collected Papers
Av S.-Y. Kuroda
Inbunden, 1992
3145 kr
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1. Two main themes connect the papers on Japanese syntax collected in this volume: movements of noun phrases and case marking, although each in turn relates to other issues in syntax and semantics. These two themes can be traced back to my 1965 MIT dissertation. The problem of the so-called topic …
Verbs and Diachronic Syntax
A Comparative History of English and French
Av I.G. Roberts
Inbunden, 1992
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An analysis of the development of a number of English and French constructions involving various kinds of subject-verb inversion. The analysis is framed in terms of the principles-and-parameters approach to syntactic theory, and provides strong support for the adoption of this approach in the …
Issues in the Structure of Arabic Clauses and Words
Inbunden, 1993
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The goals of this study are twofold. First, it investigates the internal structure of words and clauses in Standard Arabic (SA), in the light of recent developments of Government and Binding Theory (GB). Second, it argues for a specific theory of typological variation. SA morphology is essentially …
Verbs and Diachronic Syntax
A Comparative History of English and French
Av I.G. Roberts
Häftad, 1993
1692 kr
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This book combines several strands of my work, both individually and in collaboration with various people, over the last couple of years. To a very large extent, I have been inspired by the many talks, classes, appointments and other interactions that took place in the exciting intellectual …
Case, Scope, and Binding
Av M. Bittner
Inbunden, 1993
1130 kr
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Case, Scope, and Binding investigates the relation between syntax and semantics within a framework which combines the syntactic Government-Binding theory with a novel cross-linguistic theory of case and semantics. It is argued that case assignment, agreement, syntactic binding relations, as well as …
Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax
Inbunden, 1995
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o. COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX This volume contains 13 papers that were prepared for the Seventh Workshop on Comparative Germanie Syntax at the University of Stuttgart in November 1991. In defining the theme both of the workshop and of this volume, we have taken "comparative" in "comparative …
Particles and Projections in Irish Syntax
Av N. Duffield
Inbunden, 1995
1130 kr
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Chapter 5: Irish Noun Phrases ...266 5. 0 Introduction 266 5. 0. 1 Irish Nominal Paradigms...269 5. 0. 2 Prepositional Phrases: Two Types of Mutation Context ...273 5. 1 Construct State Nominals and DP Projections...282 5. 1. 1 Rightward Specifiers 286 5. 1. 2 Adjective Placement...288 5. 1. 3 …
Particles and Projections in Irish Syntax
Av N. Duffield
Häftad, 1996
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Chapter 5: Irish Noun Phrases ...266 5. 0 Introduction 266 5. 0. 1 Irish Nominal Paradigms...269 5. 0. 2 Prepositional Phrases: Two Types of Mutation Context ...273 5. 1 Construct State Nominals and DP Projections...282 5. 1. 1 Rightward Specifiers 286 5. 1. 2 Adjective Placement...288 5. 1. 3 …
Phrase Structure and the Lexicon
Inbunden, 1995
1692 kr
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V, ThemelPatients to the lowest specifier of V', and Agents to a position outside the minimal VP. Again, thematic information is encoded in terms of configurational properties. Addressing the issue of phrase structure in another domain, Margaret Speas investigates the status of null pronominal …
Directionality and Logical Form
On the Scope of Focusing Particles and Wh-in-situ
Av Josef Bayer
Inbunden, 1995
1688 kr
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Directionality and Logical Form provides a detailed treatment of the syntax of focusing particles, such as only and even in a cross-linguistic perspective. The derivation of logical forms is shown to be under the control, not only of the ECP and subjacency, but also of directionality of government …
Current Issues in Comparative Grammar
Av R. Freidin, R. Freidin
Häftad, 1996
1130 kr
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Current Issues in Comparative Grammar illustrates the diversity and productivity of research within the principles and parameters framework of generative grammar. In combination, the papers in this volume address a rich and varied set of issues in the study of comparative grammar, including the …
New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics
Av C-T James Huang, Audrey Li Yen Hui
Inbunden, 1995
2254 kr
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The past decade and a half has witnessed a great deal of renewed interest in the study of Chinese linguistics, not only in the traditional areas of philological studies and in theoretically oriented areas of syn chronic grammar and language change but also in the cultivation of new frontiers in …
New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics
Av C-T James Huang, Audrey Li Yen Hui
Häftad, 1995
2249 kr
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The past decade and a half has witnessed a great deal of renewed interest in the study of Chinese linguistics, not only in the traditional areas of philological studies and in theoretically oriented areas of syn chronic grammar and language change but also in the cultivation of new frontiers in …
Case Absorption and WH-Agreement
Av A. Watanabe
Inbunden, 1996
1130 kr
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This book is an extensively revised version of the core part of my 1993 MIT doctoral dissertation, which seeks to provide a Minimalist theory of Case absorption and support it through empirical investigation. The central idea pursued is that impoverishment of phrase structure is responsible for …
Morphosyntax of Verb Movement
A Minimalist Approach to the Syntax of Dutch
Av J.-W. Zwart
Inbunden, 1996
1692 kr
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Morphosyntax of Verb Movement discusses the phenomenon of Dutch, present in many Germanic languages, that the finite verb is fronted in main clauses but not in embedded clauses. The theoretical framework adopted is the so-called Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995), the latest developmental stage …
Morphosyntax of Verb Movement
A Minimalist Approach to the Syntax of Dutch
Av J.-W. Zwart
Häftad, 1996
1692 kr
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Morphosyntax of Verb Movement discusses the phenomenon of Dutch, present in many Germanic languages, that the finite verb is fronted in main clauses but not in embedded clauses. The theoretical framework adopted is the so-called Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995), the latest developmental stage …
