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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796977003321

Autore

Uhrig Peter

Titolo

Subjects in English : from valency grammar to a constructionist treatment of non-canonical subjects / / Peter Uhrig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

3-11-058728-9

3-11-058980-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; ; 321

Disciplina

425.54

Soggetti

English language - Noun phrase

English language - Clauses

English language - Dependency grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations, symbols and frequently used labels -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theory -- 3. Methodological Considerations -- 4. Clausal Subjects in active clauses -- 5. Analysis of subjects in passive clauses -- 6. Analysis of subjects in copular clauses -- 7. Extraposition -- 8. Existentials -- 9. Conclusions and perspectives for syntactic models -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The purpose of the book is twofold. First it tries to give a descriptive account of subjects in English. The second aim is to elucidate the status of the subject both as a concept in grammatical theory and with regard to the question whether the subject is determined by item-specific arbitrary formal restrictions in the same way as postverbal complements of the verb have been shown to be.