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The syntax of the BE-possessive : parametric variation and surface diversities /
This book is the first attempt to provide a unified account of the be-possessive syntax and its extension to the modal and the perfect constructions in Russian/North Russian within a generative framework. Apparently diverse constructions are construed as deriving from the have/be parameter, which de...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2011.
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| Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 172. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book is the first attempt to provide a unified account of the be-possessive syntax and its extension to the modal and the perfect constructions in Russian/North Russian within a generative framework. Apparently diverse constructions are construed as deriving from the have/be parameter, which depends on the utilization of the prepositional complementizer with a Case feature. The be-perfect structure provides an adequate environment where ergativity is encoded via verbal nominalization. The relevance of the be-perfect structure for a split ergative pattern shows that the ergative system is. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 269 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027255556 9027255555 9789027290649 9027290644 128312209X 9781283122092 |