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1 online resource (xvi, 465 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Concept Barrels -- 1.2. Languages and Grammars -- 1.3. Linguistic Trees -- 1.4. Edge-Extended Linguistic Trees -- 1.5. Beyond Edge-Extended Linguistic Trees: Metagraphs -- 1.6. Anaphora, Arc Relations, and Arc Types -- 2. Objects and Arrays -- 2.1. Objects -- 2.2. Diverse Types of English Objects -- 2.3. Types of Single Object Structures -- 2.4. Array 0 -- 2.5. Array 1 -- 2.6. Array 2 -- 2.7. The Prefix Re- -- 2.8. What the Distinct Arrays Imply -- 3. Double Object Structures -- 3.1. Basics -- 3.2. Links between Array 2 Single Objects and Ditransitive First Objects -- 3.3. Prepositional Flagging -- 3.4. More on 3 Objects and 3-Object-to-2 Advancement -- 3.5. Links between Array 1 Single Objects and Ditransitive Second Objects |
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3.6. The Universal Status of 3 Object and 4 Object Types -- 3.7. Distinct Relations at Different Levels -- 3.8. Reconstructing 3 Objects as a Special Kind of PP -- 3.9. A Problem in Peruvian Spanish -- 3.10. Certain German Ditransitive 3 Objects -- 4. Periphrastic and Nonperiphrastic Passives -- 4.1. Preliminary Remarks -- 4.2. The Overall Structure of Periphrastic Passive Constituents -- 4.3. Clause Union Complement Passives -- 4.4. Clauses That Only Look Like Periphrastic Passives -- 4.5. More on Peruvian Spanish 3-Object-to-2 Advancement -- 4.6. Passive Victim Arc Constraints -- 4.7. Middles as Synthetic Passives -- 4.8. Remarks on Antipassives -- 4.9. Appendix: Remarks on Adjectival Clauses -- 5. Passivization Targets: I -- 5.1. The Adequacy of Simple 2 Object Restrictions -- 5.2. Pseudopassives and Pseudomiddles -- 5.3. The Interaction of Ditransitive Passives with Demotion to 4 |
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5.4. Appendix: Pseudopassives and Adjectival Conversion -- 6. Passivization Targets: II -- 6.1. Periphrastic Passivization and Restricted Phenomena -- 6.2. Expletive There: Basics -- 6.3. Expletive There: Further Implications -- 6.4. Implications: Pseudopassive/Ditransitive Passive Parallels -- 6.5. Particles and 3 Object-Like Behavior -- 7. Passivization Targets: III -- 7.1. Passive Conclusions So Far -- 7.2. The Most Basic Constraints on English Passivization -- 7.3. Basic Past Ditransitive Passive Observations -- 7.4. Enriching the Database: I -- 7.5. Enriching the Database: II -- 7.6. Not Enriching the Database -- 7.7. Failures of Ditransitive 4 Object Passivization -- 7.8. Two Alternative Viewpoints -- 8. Visser's Generalization -- 8.1. A Much-Discussed Passivization Failure -- 8.2. Other Control Cases -- 8.3. One Aspect of Visser's Generalization Has Nothing to Do with Control |
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8.4. Visser's Generalization and Constraints on 3 Object Passivization -- 8.5. Visser's Generalization Does Not Fully Reduce to Independent Passive Principles -- 8.6. Perlmutter's Generalization -- 8.7. Quace-Based Constraints on Pseudopassivization and Q Constructions -- 8.8. Some Issues Related to Visser's Generalization -- 8.9. The Absence of Visser's Generalization Restrictions in Promise Nominalizations -- 8.10. French Parallels to Visser's Generalization -- 8.11. An Apparent Problem -- 9. Clauses with That Clause Complements -- 9.1. Some Basic That Clause Passive Considerations -- 9.2. Type II Verbal Clause Structures -- 9.3. Ditransitive Clauses with That Clause Complements -- 9.4. A Paradigm -- 9.5. Brief Remarks on Particles, 3 Objects, and That Clauses -- 10. Results, If Any |
| Summary |
In this volume, Paul Postal rejects the notion that an English phrase of the form [V + DP] invariably involves a grammatical relation properly chracterized as a 'direct object'. He argues instead that at least three distinct relations occur in such a structure |
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LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-451) and indexes |
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Print version record |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses.
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English language -- Syntax.
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English language -- Clauses.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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English language -- Clauses
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English language -- Syntax
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010015782 |
| ISBN |
9780262295482 |
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0262295482 |
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9780262296229 |
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0262296225 |
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0262295059 |
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9780262295055 |
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1280499028 |
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9781280499029 |
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9786613594259 |
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6613594253 |
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