Subject and object in modern English / / Barbara Hall Partee

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820523303321
• Autore: Partee Barbara Hall
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2015
• ISBN: 1-315-69383-6; 1-317-43767-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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""
• Sommario/riassunto: Subject and Object in Modern English, first published in 1979, deals with subjects in the English language (one of the two main constituents of a clause), first comparing two possible notions of derived subject and then re-examining some derived subjects which had been assumed to be underlying subjects as well. This title also concerns itself with the basic verb phrase relations; not only with direct and indirect objects, but locative and directional phrases, with-phrases, and of-phrases considered. This book will be of interest to students of English language and linguistics.