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The role of agreement in non-finite predication /
This comparative syntactic study claims that agreement is the most central functional category responsible for licensing predication in finite, non-finite and small clauses alike. Intriguing syntactic phenomena like Icelandic infinitival predicates taking non-nominative (quirky) subjects; psych-impe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 90. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This comparative syntactic study claims that agreement is the most central functional category responsible for licensing predication in finite, non-finite and small clauses alike. Intriguing syntactic phenomena like Icelandic infinitival predicates taking non-nominative (quirky) subjects; psych-impersonal and modal predicates in Italian, Hungarian and Russian; meteorological predicates, existential clauses, post-verbal and null subjects in the so-called null-subject VSO languages can all be better analyzed through a concept of predication that is closely related to AGRP, manifesting subject-ve. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 221 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-218) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027285317 9027285314 |
| ISSN: | 0166-0829 ; |