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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781486603321

Autore

Hunter Tim <1982->

Titolo

Syntactic effects of conjunctivist semantics [[electronic resource] ] : unifying movement and adjunction / / Tim Hunter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2011

ISBN

1-283-17496-0

9786613174963

90-272-8732-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Collana

Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today, , 0166-0829 ; ; v. 170

Disciplina

070.1/9

Soggetti

Semantics

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Grammar, Comparative and general - Conjunctions

Grammar, Comparative and general - Adjuncts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Syntactic Effects of Conjunctivist Semantics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1.Introduction; 2.Background; 3.Arguments, adjuncts and Conjunctivist interpretation; 4.Adjunct islands and freezing effects; 5.Quantification via Conjunctivist interpretation; 6.Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of names; Index of subjects

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the syntactic and semantic properties of movement and adjunction in natural language. A precise formulation of minimalist syntax is proposed, guided by an independently motivated hypothesis about the composition of neo-Davidsonian logical forms, in which there is no atomic movement operation and no atomic adjunction operation. The terms 'movement' and 'adjunction' serve only as convenient labels for certain combinations of other, primitive operations, and as a result the system derives non-trivial predictions about how movement and adjunction should interact; in particular,