| Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Series |
Linguistische Arbeiten ; v. 373 |
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Linguistische Arbeiten
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Part I Early Generative Grammar, the Rise of Category C and the Categorization of Subordinating Conjunctions -- 1 Subordination in Early Generative Grammar -- Recursiveness -- 2 Complementizers -- 3 Subordinating Conjunctions -- A Question of Categorization -- Part II Recent Conceptions of Phrase Structure -- 4 Phrase Structure -- 5 Clause Structure -- Part III Lexical Properties of Complementizers, Prepositions and Subordinating Conjunctions -- 6 Lexical Properties of Complementizers and Properties of Category C -- 7 Lexical Properties of Prepositions -- 8 Subordinating Conjunctions Straddle the Dividing Line between the Lexical and the Functional Universe -- 9 Conclusion -- 10 Bibliography |
| Summary |
This study is concerned with the categorial status of subordinating conjunctions and the internal and external structure of subordinate clauses. Starting out from the categorizations of subordinating conjunctions that prevail in recent generative linguistic theory, namely complementizers and prepositions, and from the division of syntactic categories into lexical and functional ones, the author investigates the lexical and grammatical properties of subordinating conjunctions which are held to account for both the distribution and the architecture of subordinate clauses. Central to this study i |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Subordinate constructions.
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English language -- Subordinate constructions.
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English language -- Subordinate constructions
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Subordinate constructions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110922134 |
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3110922134 |
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