The Raising of Predicates
Subtitle: Predicative Noun Phrases and the Theory of Clause Structure (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 16, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521024785
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Grammar; Grammar, Comparative and general--Clauses; Grammar, Comparative and general--Clauses Gra; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar; Linguistics; Clauses; Grammar, Comparative and general; Syntax; Verb phrase
First sentence: A basic task for any theory of syntax is to account for the fact that, in a sequence of the type noun phrase-verb-noun phrase, the two noun phrases show very different properties.