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Title Edges, heads, and projections : interface properties / edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Virginia Hill
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 265 pages) : illustrations
Series Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 156
Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 156.
Contents Why edges are needed / Cedric Boeckx -- Bare nouns with different edges / Tabea Ihsane -- Implicit agentivity without agents in the syntax : a crosslinguistic analysis of SE-verbs / Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin -- On the edge-feature of particles, interjections, and short answers / Nicola Munaro -- The grammar of polarity particles in Romanian / Donka F. Farkas -- Evidentials as generalized functional heads / Peggy Speas -- On the pre-theoretical notion phrasal head : ignoring the left periphery is always at your own risk / Alexandru Grosu -- Predication and the nature of non-finite relatives in Romance / Ion Giurgea and Elena Soare -- On the asymmetry of root versus embedded clauses : evidence from Shipibo second position clitics / José Camacho -- The cartography of phases : facts and inference in Meiteilon / Ayesha Kidwai
Summary This collection deals with central issues in the syntax of clauses and their interfaces with the conceptual-intentional system. The book targets the syntactic properties that have an impact on the interpretation of discourse and temporal dependencies, functional fields including CP, pragmatic markers at the syntax-pragmatic interface, and on the possible parameterization of these properties. The papers in this volume bring to the fore the role of the edges (specifier and adjuncts), heads and projections in the grammar and at the interfaces. They address the question to what extent the relevant
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Congresses
Generative grammar -- Congresses
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Generative grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Di Sciullo, Anne-Marie, 1951-
Hill, Virginia.
LC no. 2010003966
ISBN 9789027288288
9027288283
9789027255396
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9781282663411
9786612663413
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