The structure of argument structure -- The argument structure of adjectives -- Hybrid verbal adjuncts -- The derivation and control of infinitives -- Deriving the predicate instrumental
Summary
Each verb in natural language is associated with a set of arguments, which are not systematically predictable from the verb's meaning and are realized syntactically as the projected sentence's subject, direct object, etc. Babby puts forward the theory that this set of arguments (the verb's 'argument structure') has a universal hierarchical composition which directly determines the sentence's case and grammatical relations. The structure is uniform across language families and types, and this theory is supported by the fact that the core grammatical relations within simple sentences of all huma
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-301) and index
