Small phrase layers : a study of Finnish manner adverbials /
This monograph examines the structure and properties of Finnish manner adverbials. The central idea is that, instead of AdvPs, DPs, APs, PPs, NumPs and InfinitivalPs, manner adverbials have the form of either kPs or pPs, and they are licensed as unique specifiers of a manner-related small vP. Second...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
©2003.
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Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 65. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This monograph examines the structure and properties of Finnish manner adverbials. The central idea is that, instead of AdvPs, DPs, APs, PPs, NumPs and InfinitivalPs, manner adverbials have the form of either kPs or pPs, and they are licensed as unique specifiers of a manner-related small vP. Secondly, because "obligatory" and "optional" manner adverbials are merged as specifiers of one and the same small vP, the computational system of language sees no difference between them. This is why "obligatory" and "optional" manner adverbials often behave in exactly the same way with regard to syntact |
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Notas: | Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Edinburgh, 1999. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-269) and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027282224 9027282226 1283234106 9781283234108 |
ISSN: | 0166-0829 ; |