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Control in grammar and pragmatics : a cross-linguistic study /
The claim that " ... pronominals have phonological features only where they must, for some reason", is strongly supported by the occurrence of the null pronoun PRO as coined and introduced by Noam Chomsky. How reference of PRO is determined is the main subject of control theory, the subsys...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub.,
©1999.
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| Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 27. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The claim that " ... pronominals have phonological features only where they must, for some reason", is strongly supported by the occurrence of the null pronoun PRO as coined and introduced by Noam Chomsky. How reference of PRO is determined is the main subject of control theory, the subsystem of core grammar to which this study is dedicated. Chomsky has not followed up his "natural suggestion that choice of controller is determined by theta roles or other semantic properties of the verb, perhaps pragmatic conditions of some sort."But then, a great many students of control have engaged in exp. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 206 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-204) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027299260 9027299269 9781556199110 1556199112 |
| ISSN: | 0166-829 ; |