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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461773903321

Autore

Postal Paul Martin <1936->

Titolo

Edge-based clausal syntax [[electronic resource] ] : a study of (mostly) English object structure / / Paul M. Postal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2010

ISBN

0-262-29505-9

1-280-49902-8

9786613594259

0-262-29548-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (484 p.)

Disciplina

425

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Grammar, Comparative and general - Clauses

English language - Syntax

English language - Clauses

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-451) and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

In this volume, Paul Postal rejects the notion that an English phrase of the form [V + DP] invariably involves a grammatical relation properly chracterized as a 'direct object'. He argues instead that at least three distinct relations occur in such a structure.