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1 online resource (278 pages) |
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Routledge Library Editions: Syntax ; v. 8 |
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Routledge Library Editions: Syntax
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Footnotes; I Cyclic Indexing; 1. The Cyclic Nature of Quantifier Postposition and Agreement.; A. Quantifier Postposition.; B. Agreement between a subject and an adjective or participle in predicate position; 2. The interaction of Agreement and QP in a syntactically autonomous theory; A. Agreement must be interpretive; B. Agreement must be syntactic; C. QP and Subject-Raising; 3. The logico-grammatical approach; A. The use of variables; B. EQUI-NP deletion |
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C. Pronominalization4. Indexing Transformations; A.A solution to the Agreement and Pronominalization problem.; B. Review of the data; C. Conclusion -- Indexing transformations; 5. Amended Feature-copying; 6. Additional Remarks; Footnotes; II Definite Descriptions; 1. Pronouns and Variables; 2. Further problems posed by classical pronominalization; A. Underlying structures; B. Uniqueness presuppositions; 3. Unexpanded NP 's as variables; 4. Such that constructions and Relative Clauses; 5. Relative clause structures; 6. Equivalent logical forms; Footnotes |
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III The Cyclic Nature of the Ross-Langacker Constraints1. Formal aspects of the arguments on the cyclic nature of pronominalization; A. Ross's argument; B. Postal's argument; C. Jackendoff's argument; 2. Constraints on Feature-copying; A. Formal possibilities; B. Agreement between participle and object; C. The constraint on Quantifier Postposition; Footnotes; IV The Closeness Constraint; 1. A priori definition of the Closeness Constraint; 2. Anaphoric definite descriptions and epithcts; 3. The ""accusativus cum infinitive"" construction in Latin; 4. Relative clause reduction in Latin |
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5. Case-agreement in Greek6. Participle-Object Agreement in French; Footnotes; V Other Aspects of Distributivity in French and their Theoretical Implications; 1. Bidirectional movement transformations?; 2. Ordering Problems; 3. Distributive plurals; 4. Derivational Constraints; Footnotes; VI Bound Variables; 1. Some remarks on quantifier-structures -- 2. The grammar of any and or; A. Assumpt1ons for the analys1s; B. Pr.evious treatments of any; C. any as an existential quantifier; D. Interaction of any and or; E. Additional Remarks; Appendix; Footnotes; Conclusion |
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1. Two types of Global Phenomena2. Consequences for the formal extension of the theory of grammar; 3. The notion of theorem of grammar -- 4. Logically based grammars; Footnotes; References |
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Print version record |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Generative grammar.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Generative grammar
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315515762 |
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1315515768 |
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