Situations and Syntactic Structures
Rethinking Auxiliaries and Order in English
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256 pages
- Release Date
24 July 2018
Summary
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 differ with respect to how fine grained they assume the hierarchy to be). In Situations and Syntactic Structures, Gillian Ramchand explores the hierarchy of the verb phrase from a semantic perspect…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262535038 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262535033 |
| Author: | Gillian Catriona Ramchand |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 24 July 2018 |
| Weight: | 356g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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About The Author
Gillian Catriona Ramchand
Gillian Catriona Ramchand is Professor of Linguistics at the Institute for Language and Culture at the University of Troms -the Arctic University of Norway; she was previously University Lecturer in General Linguistics at Oxford University. She is President of GLOW (Generative Linguistics in the Old World) and the author of Aspect and Predication- The Semantics of Argument Structure and Verbal Meaning and the Lexicon.
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