Clefts and their relatives [[electronic resource] /] / Matthew Reeve

• Autore: Reeve Matthew
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Sentences; Grammar, Comparative and general - Clauses; Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Semantics
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- The syntax of English clefts -- Clefts and the licensing of relative clauses -- Clefts in Slavonic languages -- The syntax of specificational sentences -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Clefts and their relatives
• ISBN: 1-280-67690-6; 9786613653833; 90-272-7460-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779153403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguistik aktuell ; ; Bd. 185.