Discovering Syntax : : Clause Structures of English, German and Romance / / Joseph E. Emonds.
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, participle...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ,
93 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (393 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue to Discovering Syntax
- Part I: Structures in lexical projections
- 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
- Part II: Minimal structures for functional
- categories
- 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
- Part III: Landing sites of phrasal
- movements
- Chapter 9. A theory of phrase structure based on
- Extended Projections
- Chapter 10. The lower operator position with
- parasitic gaps
- Chapter 11. Unspecified categories as the key to
- root constructions
- Backmatter