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Category neutrality : a type-logical investigation /
""Feature neutrality"" is an issue that has received much attention among linguists. For example, consider the sentence, ""I have never, and will never, put my name on this document."" Here, the verb 'put' acts simultaneously as a past participle (as...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2005.
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| Series: | Outstanding dissertations in linguistics.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | ""Feature neutrality"" is an issue that has received much attention among linguists. For example, consider the sentence, ""I have never, and will never, put my name on this document."" Here, the verb 'put' acts simultaneously as a past participle (as in ""have never put"") and a base form (as in ""will never put""), and is therefore said to be neutral between the two forms. Similar examples have been found for many languages. The accepted wisdom is that neutrality is possible only for morphosyntactic features such as verb form, gender, number, declension class-not at the level of gross syntact |
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| Item Description: | Based on the author's thesis, Ohio State University. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 320 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-312) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203495381 9780203495384 9786610236336 661023633X 9781135876777 1135876770 9781135876722 113587672X 9781135876760 1135876762 9781138969971 1138969974 |