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Arguments as relations / John Bowers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowers, John S.
- Series:
- Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 58.
- Linguistic inquiry monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb phrase.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Passive voice.
- Minimalist theory (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bowers proposes a radically new approach to argument structure that has the potential to unify data from a wide range of different language types in terms of a simple and universal syntactic structure.
- Contents:
- Series forward
- Preface
- 1. Introduction and overview
- 2. Passive
- 3. Affectee arguments
- 4. Grammatical function changing morphology
- 5. Derived nominals
- 6. Conclusion
- Appendix A. A compositional semantics for argument heads
- Appendix B. First application of merge
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-231) and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-28872-9
- 1-280-49894-3
- 9786613594174
- 0-262-28925-3
- OCLC:
- 793519706
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