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Arguments as Relations /

Bowers proposes a radically new approach to argument structure that has the potential to unify data from a wide range of different language types in terms of a simple and universal syntactic structure.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bowers, John S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Series forward
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction and overview
  • 2. Passive
  • 3. Affectee arguments
  • 4. Grammatical function changing morphology
  • 5. Derived nominals
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Appendix A.A compositional semantics for argument heads
  • Appendix B. First application of merge
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.