
Partitions and Atoms of Clause Structure
Subjects, Agreement, Case and Clitics
Dominique Sportiche(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 18. June 1998
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-0-415-16926-4 (ISBN)
Description
This collection brings together some of Dominique Sportiche's best work, including essays that are published here for the first time.
The articles discuss the architecture of syntax in natural languages and Sportiche suggests that languages do not differ at all in their syntactic organization. This view takes shape through the analysis of a variety of syntactic configurations and essays examine what it means to be a Subject, how Case marking functions, how it relates to Agreement, and how Pronominal Clitic Constructions should be analyzed.
The articles discuss the architecture of syntax in natural languages and Sportiche suggests that languages do not differ at all in their syntactic organization. This view takes shape through the analysis of a variety of syntactic configurations and essays examine what it means to be a Subject, how Case marking functions, how it relates to Agreement, and how Pronominal Clitic Constructions should be analyzed.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
834 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-16926-4 (9780415169264)
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Person
Sportiche, Dominique
Content
Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 A theory of floating quantifiers and its corollaries for constituent structure, 2 The position of subjects, 3 Movement, agreement and case, 4, Clitic constructions, 5 Subject clitics in French and Romance: Complex Inversion and clitic doubling, 6 French predicate clitics and clause structure, 7 Sketch of a reductionist approach to syntactic variation and dependencies, 8 Appendix: Theta theory and extraction, Index