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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789930203321

Autore

Bowers John S

Titolo

Arguments as relations / / John Bowers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010

©2010

ISBN

0-262-28872-9

1-280-49894-3

9786613594174

0-262-28925-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

Linguistic inquiry monographs

Disciplina

415/.6

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb phrase

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Grammar, Comparative and general - Passive voice

Minimalist theory (Linguistics)

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 (p. [221]-231) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Series forward -- Preface -- 1. Introduction and overview -- 2. Passive -- 3. Affectee arguments -- 4. Grammatical function changing morphology -- 5. Derived nominals -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix A. A compositional semantics for argument heads -- Appendix B. First application of merge -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Bowers proposes a radically new approach to argument structure that has the potential to unify data from a wide range of different language types in terms of a simple and universal syntactic structure.