Prolegomenon to a theory of argument structure

This work is the culmination of an eighteen-year collaboration between Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser on the study of the syntax of lexical items. It examines the hypothesis that the behavior of lexical items may be explained in terms of a very small number of very simple principles. In particular,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hale, Kenneth L. 1934-2001 (-)
Otros Autores: Keyser, Samuel Jay, 1935-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press 2002.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 39.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario:This work is the culmination of an eighteen-year collaboration between Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser on the study of the syntax of lexical items. It examines the hypothesis that the behavior of lexical items may be explained in terms of a very small number of very simple principles. In particular, a lexical item is assumed to project a syntactic configuration defined over just two relations, complement and specifier, where these configurations are constrained to preclude iteration and to permit only binary branching. The work examines this hypothesis by methodically looking at a variety of constructions in English and other languages.
Descripción Física:x, 281 p. : il
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 261-267) e índice.
ISBN:9780262274722
9780585444710