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The syntax of argument structure /
Each verb in natural language is associated with a set of arguments, which are not systematically predictable from the verb's meaning and are realized syntactically as the projected sentence's subject, direct object, etc. Babby puts forward the theory that this set of arguments (the verb&#...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in linguistics ;
120. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Each verb in natural language is associated with a set of arguments, which are not systematically predictable from the verb's meaning and are realized syntactically as the projected sentence's subject, direct object, etc. Babby puts forward the theory that this set of arguments (the verb's 'argument structure') has a universal hierarchical composition which directly determines the sentence's case and grammatical relations. The structure is uniform across language families and types, and this theory is supported by the fact that the core grammatical relations within simple sentences of all huma. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 307 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-301) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511517969 0511517963 0511516789 9780511516788 9780511517471 0511517475 9780511576584 0511576587 9786612103919 6612103914 0511515502 9780511515507 0511514425 9780511514425 |