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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Whitman, Neal, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge, 2005.
Series:Outstanding dissertations in linguistics.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammatical categories.
Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Neutralization (Linguistics)
Semantics
Catégories grammaticales.
Sémantique.
Syntaxe.
Neutralisation (Linguistique)
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Empirical background
  • 2. Theoretical background
  • 3. Category neutrality and mixed-Wh interrogatives
  • 4. Category neutrality and verbal argument alternations
  • 5. Category neutrality and predicative phrases
  • 6. Category neutrality and adverbial nouns
  • 7. Conclusion.

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