Clefts and their relatives / / Matthew Reeve
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| Autore: |
Reeve Matthew
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| Titolo: |
Clefts and their relatives / / Matthew Reeve
|
| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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: | 9786613653833 |
| 9781280676901 | |
| 1280676906 | |
| 9789027274601 | |
| 9027274606 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910969756203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Linguistik aktuell ; ; Bd. 185.