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Author May, Robert

Title Levels of Syntactic Representation
Published Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (312 pages)
Series Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] Ser. ; v. 10
Studies in Generative Grammar SGG Ser
Contents Intro; Preface; Table of Contents; 1. A Note on Government and Binding; 2. Clitics and Binding in Spanish; 3. French predication and linguistic theory; 4. Logical Operators, Complete Constituents, and Extraction Transformations; 5. Unambiguous Paths; 6. Configurational Grammar; 7. Empty quantifiers, LF-movement, and the ECP in French; 8. On Case and Impersonal Constructions; 9. Remarks on government, thematic structure and the distribution of empty categories; 10. Aspects of multiple wh-movement in Polish and Czech
Summary The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to stud
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Generative grammar.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Generative grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
Form Electronic book
Author Koster, Jan
ISBN 3110874164
9783110874167