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Author Emonds, Joseph E

Title Discovering Syntax : Clause Structures of English, German and Romance
Published Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (405 pages)
Series Studies in Generative Grammar, No. 93
Studies in Generative Grammar, No. 93
Contents Frontmatter; Contents; Prologue to Discovering Syntax; Chapter 1. Types of syntactic categories and features; Chapter 2. The restricted complement space of lexical frames; Chapter 3. The autonomy of the (syntactic) lexicon and syntax: Insertion conditions for derivational and inflectional morphemes; Chapter 4. Secondary predication, stationary particles, and silent prepositions; Chapter 5. Projecting indirect objects; Chapter 6. The flat structure economy of semi-lexical heads; Chapter 7. How clitics license null phrases: A theory of the lexical interface; Chapter 8. English indirect passives
Chapter 9. A theory of phrase structure based on Extended ProjectionsChapter 10. The lower operator position with parasitic gaps; Chapter 11. Unspecified categories as the key to root constructions; Backmatter
Summary The essays in this volume, dating from 1991 onwards, focus on highly characteristic constructions of English, Romance languages, and German. Among clause-internal structures, the most puzzling are English double objects, particle constructions, and non-finite complementation (infinitives, participles and gerunds). Separate chapters in Part I offer relatively complete analyses of each. These analyses are integrated into the framework of Emonds (2000), wherein a simplified subcategorization theory fully expresses complement selection. Principal results of that framework constitute the initial es
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Subject Languages, Modern -- Syntax.
Languages, Modern -- Syntax
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110207521
3110207524