Syntax of Substance [electronic resource].
Adger, David.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,
c2013.
Adger proposes a new approach to phrase structure that eschews functional heads and labels structures exocentrically. The proposal simultaneously simplifies the syntactic system and restricts the range of possible structures, ruling out the ubiquitous (remnant) roll-up derivations and forcing a separation of arguments from their apparent heads. This new system has a number of empirical consequences, which the book explores in the domain of relational nominals across different language families, including Germanic, Romance, Celtic, Polynesian, and Semitic.
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Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Labels and Structures; Chapter 3 Syntactic Interpretation; Chapter 4 Puzzles in the Syntax of Relational Nominals; Chapter 5 The PP Peripherality Generalization; Chapter 6 The Etiology of the PP Argument; Chapter 7 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index; Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Adger proposes a new approach to phrase structure that eschews functional heads and labels structures exocentrically. The proposal simultaneously simplifies the syntactic system and restricts the range of possible structures, ruling out the ubiquitous (remnant) roll-up derivations and forcing a separation of arguments from their apparent heads. This new system has a number of empirical consequences, which the book explores in the domain of relational nominals across different language families, including Germanic, Romance, Celtic, Polynesian, and Semitic.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Phrase structure grammar.
Semantics.
Phrase structure grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general
Semantics
Languages & Literatures
Philology & Linguistics