Events and predication : a new approach to syntactic processing in English and Spanish /
Studies on the syntactic consequences of event type in languages have shown that Aktionsart plays a role in Universal Grammar. This book contributes to the exploration of the syntax/semantics interface by presenting a thorough comparison of event and predicate types in English and Spanish. The mappi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2000.
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Colección: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ;
v. 207. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Studies on the syntactic consequences of event type in languages have shown that Aktionsart plays a role in Universal Grammar. This book contributes to the exploration of the syntax/semantics interface by presenting a thorough comparison of event and predicate types in English and Spanish. The mapping between event and syntactic predicate types, including detransitives, is given a minimalist account based on the functional categories that embed event features and on a careful analysis of the features checked by objects. As the book delves into the theoretical issue of how parameters are charac. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 219 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027284440 902728444X 128312159X 9781283121590 9786613121592 6613121592 |
ISSN: | 0304-0763 ; |