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Situations and Syntactic Structures : Rethinking Auxiliaries and Order in English /

A new theory of the syntax-semantics interface that relies on hierarchical orderings in language, with the English auxiliary system as its empirical ground. Research in syntax has found that there is a hierarchical ordering of projections within the verb phrase across languages (although researchers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ramchand, Gillian, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction to Events and Situations in Grammar
  • The Progressive in English
  • The Passive and its Participle
  • The Participle, the Perfect and the Spatio temporal Domain
  • Modals and the Spatiotemporal Domain
  • Modals and Generalized Anchoring
  • Epilogue.