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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818749503321

Autore

Quicoli Antonio Carlos

Titolo

The structure of complementation / / Antonio Carlos Quicoli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ghent, : E. Story-Scientia, 1982

ISBN

90-272-7126-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 172 pages) : illustrations

Collana

SIGLA ; ; 3

Disciplina

469.5

Soggetti

Portuguese language - Syntax

Portuguese language - Grammar, Generative

Portuguese language - Agreement

Parecer (The Portuguese word)

Greek language - Case

Greek language - Agreement

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Thesis.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Foreword; 3. I. INTRODUCTION; 4. II. ON THE PORTUGUESE VERB PARECER; 5. III. ON 'MISSING SUBJECTS' IN PORTUGUESE; 6. IV. SOME PROPERTIES OF AGREEMENT RULES; 7. Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

The study of complementation has received considerable attention in generative studies. Following Rosenbaum's (1967) pioneering study of the English complement system, there are extensive studies by Lakoff (1965), Ross (1967), Perlmutter (1971) and a large number of publications. More recent detailed studies are Emonds (1970) and Bresnan (1972) . These studies have increased enormously the body of factual knowledge about the complement system of English, and about the phenomenon of complementation in general. As a consequence there are a number of empirical hypotheses about the structure of human languages which must now be tested against facts of different languages. Of these hypotheses, perhaps the most interesting is that the grammars of all languages make use of the principle of the transformational cycle. Testing this hypothesis constitutes one of the main concerns of the present book. Furthermore, these studies have also raised numerous interesting empirical issues of great importance



for linguistic theory, most of which are still awaiting fresh evidence from different languages in order to be settled. This study is directed towards resolving some of these issues by adducing relevent data, primarily from Portuguese.