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Autore |
Reeve Matthew |
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Titolo |
Clefts and their relatives / / Matthew Reeve |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 |
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9786613653833 |
9781280676901 |
1280676906 |
9789027274601 |
9027274606 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (237 p.) |
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Collana |
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Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, , 0166-0829 ; ; v. 185 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Grammar, Comparative and general - Sentences |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Clauses |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax |
Semantics |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- The syntax of English clefts -- Clefts and the licensing of relative clauses -- Clefts in Slavonic languages -- The syntax of specificational sentences -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Cleft constructions have long presented an analytical challenge for syntactic theory. This monograph argues that clefts and related constructions cannot be analysed in a straightforwardly compositional manner. Instead, it proposes that the locality conditions on modification (for example by a restrictive relative clause) must be reformulated such that they account for the apparent compositionality of DP-internal modification whilst also permitting 'discontinuous' modification of the type which is independently needed for constructions such as relative clause extraposition. The empirical focus |
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