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Comparisons and contrasts /
Comparisons and Contrasts collects eleven of Richard Kayne's recent articles in theoretical syntax, with an emphasis on comparative syntax, which uses syntactic differences among languages to probe the properties of the human language faculty. Kayne attaches particular importance to uncovering...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Comparisons and Contrasts collects eleven of Richard Kayne's recent articles in theoretical syntax, with an emphasis on comparative syntax, which uses syntactic differences among languages to probe the properties of the human language faculty. Kayne attaches particular importance to uncovering the primitives of syntax/semantics, demonstrating the existence of silent elements that are syntactically and semantically active, and showing their distribution and limitations. He attempts to derive the very existence of the noun-verb distinction-and to account for the sharp differences between nouns a. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199780174 019978017X 0199732515 9780199732517 0199732523 9780199732524 1282763369 9781282763364 9786612763366 6612763361 |