Problems in Syntax

416 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The definition of functions and categories.- Syntactic-morphological discrepancies in Maltese sentence structure.- Heuristic problems concerning the identification of grammatical relations: the case of the Westgermania (Dutch ¿ English ¿ German).- Verb complements and sentence complements: two different types of relation.- Observations on the syntax of English nominals.- Constructional properties of the sentence.- The structure of infinitival perception verb complements in a transformational grammar.- Passive in a semantic dependency network.- Verb-first clauses in Icelandic, successive cyclic wh-movement and syntactic binding.- The construction of the infinitive with causative movement verbs in French.- Generalized union.- On the status of verbal reflexives.- Reflexivization in English.- Tense and aspect.- The temporal reference of the English futurate.- Prolegomena to a semantic analysis of phase-indicating verbal periphrases in Portuguese.- Time, tense and restriction (On the French periphrasis ¿venir de + infinitive¿).- The organization of grammar.- The configurational matrix.- Towards plausibility in theories of language acquisition.- References.

• Themen: Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
• ISBN: 9781461296911
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.01.2012
• Größe: 235 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Humana
• Herausgegeben von: Liliane Tasmowski, Dominique Willems