Problems in Syntax

Herausgegeben:Tasmowski, Liliane; Willems, Dominique

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Language
• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4612-9691-1
• 1983
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9781461296911
• ISBN-10: 1461296919
• Artikelnr.: 39677800

Inhaltsangabe

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.