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A unified theory of verbal and nominal projections /
Syntactically speaking, it has long been known that noun phrases are parallel to clauses in many respects. While most syntactic theories incorporate this principle, nouns have generally been regarded as inferior to verbs in terms of their licensing abilities, and nominal projections have been regard...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Syntactically speaking, it has long been known that noun phrases are parallel to clauses in many respects. While most syntactic theories incorporate this principle, nouns have generally been regarded as inferior to verbs in terms of their licensing abilities, and nominal projections have been regarded as less complex than verbal projections in terms of the number of functional categories that they contain. This text, however, argues that clauses and noun phrases are perfectly parallel. This book provides a unified theory of clauses and noun phrases, ultimately helping to simplify numerous thor. |
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| Notas: | Rev. and extended version of 2nd and 4th chapters of the author's thesis (Tohoku University--1997). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 323 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-316) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1429401397 9781429401395 9780195143874 0195143876 9780195143881 0195143884 1280531533 9781280531538 0195349423 9780195349429 |