The structure of complementation / Antonio Carlos Quicoli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quicoli, Antonio Carlos.

Series:

SIGLA ; 3

Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portuguese language--Syntax.

Portuguese language.

Portuguese language--Grammar, Generative.

Portuguese language--Agreement.

Parecer (The Portuguese word).

Greek language--Case.

Greek language.

Greek language--Agreement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 172 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ghent : E. Story-Scientia, 1982.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The study of complementation has received considerable attention in generative studies. Following Rosenbaum's (1967) pioneering study of the English complement system, there are extensive studies by Lakoff (1965), Ross (1967), Perlmutter (1971) and a large number of publications. More recent detailed studies are Emonds (1970) and Bresnan (1972) . These studies have increased enormously the body of factual knowledge about the complement system of English, and about the phenomenon of complementation in general. As a consequence there are a number of empirical hypotheses about the structure of human languages which must now be tested against facts of different languages. Of these hypotheses, perhaps the most interesting is that the grammars of all languages make use of the principle of the transformational cycle. Testing this hypothesis constitutes one of the main concerns of the present book. Furthermore, these studies have also raised numerous interesting empirical issues of great importance for linguistic theory, most of which are still awaiting fresh evidence from different languages in order to be settled. This study is directed towards resolving some of these issues by adducing relevent data, primarily from Portuguese.

Contents:

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Foreword; 3. I. INTRODUCTION; 4. II. ON THE PORTUGUESE VERB PARECER; 5. III. ON 'MISSING SUBJECTS' IN PORTUGUESE; 6. IV. SOME PROPERTIES OF AGREEMENT RULES; 7. Bibliography

Notes:

Thesis.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

90-272-7126-7

OCLC:

851161724