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Little Words : Their History, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Acquisition.

Little Words is an interdisciplinary examination of the functions and change in the use of clitics, pronouns, determiners, conjunctions, discourse particles, auxiliary/light verbs, prepositions, and other "little words" that have played a central role in linguistic theory and in language a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leow, Ronald P.
Otros Autores: Campos, Hctor, Lardiere, Donna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : Georgetown University Press, 2009.
Colección:Georgetown University Round Table on Languages & Linguistics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; PART I: HISTORY; Chapter 2. From "Two" to "Both": Historical Changes in the Syntax and Meaning of Oba in Slavic; Chapter 3. When Small Words Collide: Morphological Reduction and Phonological Compensation in Old Leonese Contractions; PART II: PHONOLOGY; Chapter 4. Distinguishing Function Words from Content Words in Children's Oral Reading; Chapter 5. Motivating Floating Quantifiers; PART III: SYNTAX; Chapter 6. Applicative Phrases Hosting Accusative Clitics; Chapter 7. The Little DE of Degree Constructions.
  • Chapter 8. The Complementizer TheChapter 9. What Is There When Little Words Are Not There?: Possible Implications for Evolutionary Studies; Chapter 10. Spanish Personal a and the Antidative; PART IV: SEMANTICS; Chapter 11. Predicting Argument Realization from Oblique Marker Semantics; Chapter 12. Aspect Selectors, Scales, and Contextual Operators: An Analysis of by Temporal Adjuncts; Chapter 13. Distributive Effects of the Plural Ma.