Lexicon and grammar : the English syntacticon / by Joseph E. Emonds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emonds, Joseph E.

Series:

Studies in generative grammar ; 50.

Studies in generative grammar ; 50

Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 0167-4331 ; 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Syntax.

English language.

English language--Grammar, Generative.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 470 p. : ill.

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Lexicon and Grammar".

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Acknowledgments

Author's academic biography

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Categories and feature inventories of Universal Grammar

Chapter 2. Subcategorization: Syntax as the material basis of semantics

Chapter 3. Subcategorization inside words: Morphology as grammatical compounding

Chapter 4. Multi-level lexical insertion: Explaining Inflection and Derivation

Chapter 5. Passive syntactic structures

Chapter 6. The genesis of flat structures: Linking verbs, "light" verbs and "restructuring"

Appendix to chapter 6. Causative and perception verb "clause union"

Chapter 7. Subcategorization across syntactic empty heads

Chapter 8. The restricted complement space of lexical frames

Chapter 9. Licensing and identification of null complements

Chapter 10. Understood subjects: Generalizing Pro

Summary of principles

Sample Lexicon

References

Subject Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-461) and index.

ISBN:

9783110872996

3110872994

OCLC:

979586567