Problems in Syntax
Published on 28. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
414 pages
978-1-4612-9691-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
414 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
628 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4612-9691-1 (9781461296911)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4613-2727-1
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Liliane Tasmowski | Dominique Willems
Problems in Syntax
Book
02/1984
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
€96.00
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Content
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.