Perspectives on phrase structure : : heads and licensing / / edited by Susan D. Rothstein.
This book explores licensing theory and its implications for a theory of syntax. It brings together a series of new papers which focus on developing a constrained set of licensing mechanisms relating elements in a syntactic representation, and on the different properties of lexical and functional he...
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| Superior document: | Syntax and Semantics; 25 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | San Diego : : Academic Press,, 1991. |
| Year of Publication: | 1991 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Syntax and Semantics;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Notes: | Papers presented at a conference organized by the 1989 LSA Summer Institute at the University of Arizona in Tucson. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Susan D. Rothstein
- Introduction / Susan D. Rothstein
- A Case for Emerging Functional Categories / Jaklin Kornfilt
- Two Functional Categories in Noun Phrases: Evidence from Modern Hebrew / Elizabeth Ritter
- On the Position of Subjects / Heles Contreras
- Phrase Structure of Ellipsis in English / Anne Lobeck
- The Alignment of Arguments in Adjective Phrases / Tim Stowell
- Syntactic Licensing and Subcategorization / Susan D. Rothstein
- Adjunct-Predicate Licensing and D-Structure / T. R. Rapoport
- A Phrase Structure Theory for Tertiaries / Thomas Ernst
- Relative Clauses, Licensing, and the Nature of the Derivation / David Lebeaux
- Generalized Transformations and the D-Structure Position of Adjuncts / Margaret Speas
- Index / Susan D. Rothstein
- Syntax and Semantics / Susan D. Rothstein.