Syntactic effects of conjunctivist semantics [[electronic resource] ] : unifying movement and adjunction / / Tim Hunter

• Autore: Hunter Tim <1982->
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (198 p.)
• Disciplina: 070.1/9
• Soggetto topico: Semantics; Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Grammar, Comparative and general - Conjunctions; Grammar, Comparative and general - Adjuncts
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Syntactic Effects of Conjunctivist Semantics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1.Introduction; 2.Background; 3.Arguments, adjuncts and Conjunctivist interpretation; 4.Adjunct islands and freezing effects; 5.Quantification via Conjunctivist interpretation; 6.Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of names; Index of subjects
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the syntactic and semantic properties of movement and adjunction in natural language. A precise formulation of minimalist syntax is proposed, guided by an independently motivated hypothesis about the composition of neo-Davidsonian logical forms, in which there is no atomic movement operation and no atomic adjunction operation. The terms 'movement' and 'adjunction' serve only as convenient labels for certain combinations of other, primitive operations, and as a result the system derives non-trivial predictions about how movement and adjunction should interact; in particular,
• Titolo autorizzato: Syntactic effects of conjunctivist semantics
• ISBN: 1-283-17496-0; 9786613174963; 90-272-8732-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781486603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguistik aktuell ; ; Bd. 170.