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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797384103321

Autore

Partee Barbara Hall

Titolo

Subject and object in modern English / / Barbara Hall Partee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-315-69383-6

1-317-43767-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (101 p.)

Collana

Routledge Library Edition : The English Language ; ; v.23

Disciplina

425

Soggetti

English language -- Grammar, Generative

English language -- Topic and comment

English Language

English

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1979.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Original Title""; ""Original Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION""; ""1.1 Deep and Surface Sentence Structure""; ""1.2 Categories and Relations""; ""1.3 Partial and Complete Grammars""; ""1.4 Scope of the Thesis""; ""CHAPTER II. THE SUBJECT RELATION""; ""2.0 Introduction""; ""2.1 Surface Subject Defined by Number Agreement""; ""2.2 Surface Subject Defined by Substitution""; ""2.3 Underlying Subject and Transitive-Intransitive Verb Pairs""; ""2.30 Subjectless sentences""

""2.31 ""The car drives easily""""""2.32 Causatives""; ""2.33 Animacy of underlying subjects""; ""2.34 Exceptions to 2.33""; ""2.4 Consequences of Subjectless Sentences""; ""CHAPTER III. VERB AND OBJECT""; ""3.0 The Determination of Underlying Structure""; ""3.01 Reflexivization""; ""3.02 Co-occurrence relations""; ""3.1 Direct Object""; ""3.2 Indirect Object""; ""3.21 - 3.24 Underlying structure of indirect objects""; ""3.25 - 3.27 Related structures""; ""3.3 Locative and Directional Phrases""; ""3.31 Their place in the verb phrase""

""3.32 Phrase structural versus transformational  derivation""""3.33 The relation between locative and directional  phrases""; ""3.4 Derived



Direct Object""; ""3.41 Indirect objects""; ""3.42 Objectivized locative phrases""; ""3.43 Of-phrases""; ""3.5 Concluding Remarks""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""