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1 online resource (xxiii, 470 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in generative grammar ; 50 |
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Studies in generative grammar ; 50.
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| Contents |
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author�s academic biography -- Chapter 1. Categories and feature inventories of Universal Grammar -- 1.1 A theory and practice of well-formed lexical entries -- 1.2 Types of syntactic categories and features -- 1.3 A theory of phrase structure as Extended Projections -- 1.4 The interplay among derivations, the Lexicon, and Economy Principles -- 1.5 An excursus into IP reference and economy at the LF Interface -- Chapter 2. Subcategorization: Syntax as the material basis of semantics -- 2.1 Advantages of classical subcategorization |
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2.2 Extending and restricting subcategorization to syntactic features2.3 Syntactic vs. semantic selection: sisterhood is powerful -- 2.4 Determining Theta Roles by interpretive principles -- 2.5 Indeterminacy of object roles: the LOCATION feature on V -- 2.6 Indeterminacy of subject roles: variation in principal role -- 2.7 A Gedanken Experiment for learning lexical entries -- Chapter 3. Subcategorization inside words: Morphology as grammatical compounding -- 3.1 Marked and unmarked headedness: English vs. Japanese |
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3.2 The independence of head directionality and domain size: French word order3.3 Combining word-internal and phrasal trees -- 3.4 Conflating syntactic and morphological subcategorization -- 3.5 Where it�s at: Morphology as a special case of compounding -- 3.6 Relating morphological typology to free form properties -- 3.7 Dictionary and Syntacticon: a new slant on lexical research -- Chapter 4. Multi-level lexical insertion: Explaining Inflection and Derivation -- 4.1 The bifurcated lexical model: Dictionary and Syntacticon -- 4.2 Levels of lexical insertion |
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4.3 Defining and dividing morphology4.4 Inflectional morphology as late insertion -- 4.5 Alternative Realization on free morphemes -- 4.6 Derivational morphology: the arguments of lexically derived forms -- 4.7 English nominalizations: confirming the Syntacticon model -- 4.8 Expanded list of differences between the Dictionary and the Syntacticon -- Chapter 5. Passive syntactic structures -- 5.1 The common syntax of Verbal and Adjectival passives -- 5.2 Differences between Verbal and Adjectival passives |
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5.3 Two insertion levels in syntax: two types of passive Adjectives5.4 The Verbal (inflectional) passive -- 5.5 Cross-linguistic variation in impersonal passives -- 5.6 The strange Case of perfect participles -- Chapter 6. The genesis of flat structures: Linking verbs, “light� verbs and “restructuring� -- 6.1 Surprising consequences of higher empty heads -- 6.2 Flatter lexical projections for predicate adjectives and participles -- 6.3 Flatter lexical projections induced by “light� verbs -- 6.4 Theoretical limits on possible flat structures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-461) and index |
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English language -- Syntax.
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English language -- Grammar, Generative.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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English language -- Grammar, Generative
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English language -- Syntax
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110872996 |
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3110872994 |
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9783110169812 |
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3110169819 |
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