Subjects, expletives, and the EPP /
This collection of previously unpublished articles examines Noam Chomsky's Extended Projection Principle and its relationship to subjects and expletives (works like "it" that stand for other words). Re-examining Chomsky's proposition that each clause must have a subject, these ar...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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Colección: | Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This collection of previously unpublished articles examines Noam Chomsky's Extended Projection Principle and its relationship to subjects and expletives (works like "it" that stand for other words). Re-examining Chomsky's proposition that each clause must have a subject, these articles represent the current state of the debate, particularly with respect to the theory's universal applicability across languages. Presenting an international and highly respected group of contributors, the volume explores these questions in a variety of languages, including Italian, Finnish, Icelandic, an. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 245 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each section. |
ISBN: | 9780195343854 0195343859 019514225X 9780195142259 128083515X 9781280835155 9786610835157 6610835152 9780195142242 0195142241 |