Checking theory and grammatical function in universal grammar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ura, Hiroyuki, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Generative grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Hiroyuki Ura demonstrates that his theory of multiple feature-checking, an extension of Chomsky's AGR-less checking theory, gives a natural explanation for a wide range of data drawn from a variety of languages in a very consistent way.

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Active/Inverse Voice Alternation; 3. Anti-Impersonal Passives; 4. Dative Subject Constructions; 5. Locative Inversion; 6. Ergativity and Its Typological Variation; 7. Double Object Constructions; 8. Object Shift in Japanese; 9. Conclusion and Further Issues; References; Index;

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772132-X

1-280-47112-3

1-4237-5989-3

0-19-535340-4

1-60256-257-1

OCLC:

191038314