Guglielmo Cinque (Universita degli Studi di Venezia)

The Syntax of Relative Clauses

A Unified Analysis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides evidence that a unified analysis of the different types of relative clauses is possible. Addressing key issues of importance in the field today, it will be welcomed by a wide variety of linguists, ranging from formal theoretical linguists, to typologists, to semanticists.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781108790581
• ISBN-10: 1108790585
• Artikelnr.: 58503155

Autorenporträt

Guglielmo Cinque is Professor of Linguistics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Preliminaries
2. Deriving the cross-linguistically attested types of restrictive/maximalizing relative clauses from a double-headed structure
3. Deriving the other types of relative clauses from a double-headed structure
4. 'Strategies' for the realization of the internal head
5. Some residual questions
Conclusion
Appendix. Possible evidence for the existence of non-'raising' derivations.