Deriving syntactic relations

"A pioneering new approach to a long-debated topic at the heart of syntax: what are the primitive concepts and operations of syntax? This book argues, appealing in part to the logic of Chomsky's Minimalist Program, that the primitive operations of syntax form relations between words rather...

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1. Verfasser: Bowers, John S. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, New York, Port Melbourne Cambridge University Press 2018
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in linguistics 151
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Zusammenfassung:"A pioneering new approach to a long-debated topic at the heart of syntax: what are the primitive concepts and operations of syntax? This book argues, appealing in part to the logic of Chomsky's Minimalist Program, that the primitive operations of syntax form relations between words rather than combining words to form constituents"--
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Relational derivation; 2. Types of lexical projections and arguments; 3. Modification; 4. Variation in word order; 5. The role of morphology; 6. Operators; 7. Ellipsis; 8. The DNA of language
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:x, 296 Seiten
23 cm
ISBN:9781107096752
978-1-107-09675-2