English syntax and argumentation

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aarts, Bas , 1961- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan , c2008
Edition:3rd ed
Series:Palgrave modern linguistics
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Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Function
  • 3. Form: words, world classes and phrases
  • 4. More on form: clauses and sentences
  • 5. The function-form interface
  • 6. Predicates, arguments and thematic roles
  • 7. Cross-categorial generalisations: X-bar syntax
  • 8. More on clauses
  • 9. Movement
  • 10. Syntactic argumentation
  • 11. Constituecy: movement and substitution
  • 12. Constituency: some additional teste
  • 13. Predicates and arguments revisited
  • 14. Grammatical indeterminacy
  • 15. Case studies