Minimalism, scope, and VP structure
By: Thomas Stroik.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.; Generative grammar.
Description: In this scholarly book, author Thomas Stroik furthers recent directions in generative grammars. Bringing together Chomsky's minimalist assumptions of syntactic representation and Aoun and Li's theory of scope, Stroik investigates what the logical representation of a sentence can tell us about the structure of verb phrases (VPs).

Arguing that scopal relations provide the clearest view of the structural relationship between noun phrase (NP) arguments, he uses scopal data to explore and expose the base argument structure of VPs. In his analysis of VP structure, Stroik discusses double-object constructions, multiple interrogatives, bare NP adverbials, and psych-verb constructions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-167) and index.