Discovering Syntax: Clause Structures of English, German and Romance - Couverture rigide

Livre 56 sur 161: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]

Emonds, Joseph E.

 
9783110186826: Discovering Syntax: Clause Structures of English, German and Romance
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 3110186829 ISBN 13 : 9783110186826
Editeur : De Gruyter Mouton, 2007

Synopsis

The essays in this volume, dating from 1991 onwards, focus on highly characteristic constructions of English, Romance languages, and German.

Among clause-internal structures, the most puzzling are English double objects, particle constructions, and non-finite complementation (infinitives, participles and gerunds). Separate chapters in Part I offer relatively complete analyses of each. These analyses are integrated into the framework of Emonds (2000), wherein a simplified subcategorization theory fully expresses complement selection. Principal results of that framework constitute the initial essay of Part I. areas.

The self-contained essays can all be read separately. They are rich in empirical documentation, and yet in all of them, solutions are constructed around a coherent, relatively simple theoretical core.

In Romance languages, classic generative debates have singled out clitic and causative constructions as the most challenging. Separate essays in Part II lay out the often complex paradigms and propose detailed syntactic solutions, simple in their overall architecture yet rich in detailed predictions.

Concerning movements to clausal edges, especially controversial topics include passives, English parasitic gaps, and the nature of verb-second systems exemplified by German.. The essays in Part III each use rather surprising but still theoretically constrained structural accounts to solve thorny problems in all three.

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À propos de l?auteur

Joseph E. Emonds, Kobe-Shoin University, Japan & University of Durham, UK.

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Éditeur
De Gruyter Mouton
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3110186829
ISBN 13 
9783110186826
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
405
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ISBN 10 :  3119160210 ISBN 13 :  9783119160216
Editeur : Mouton de Gruyter, 2007
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