Partitions and atoms of clause structure subjects, agreement, case, and clitics

This collection brings together some of Dominique Sportiche's best work, including essays that are published here for the first time. The articles discuss the architecture of syntax in natural languages and Sportiche suggests that languages do not differ at all in their syntactic organization....

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Other Authors: Sportiche, Dominique, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge 1998.
Series:Routledge Leading Linguists
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429713706719
Table of Contents:
  • BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 A THEORY OF FLOATING QUANTIFIERS AND ITS COROLLARIES FOR CONSTITUENT STRUCTURE; 2 THE POSITION OF SUBJECTS; 3 MOVEMENT, AGREEMENT AND CASE; 4 CLITIC CONSTRUCTIONS; 5 SUBJECT CLITICS IN FRENCH AND ROMANCE; 6 FRENCH PREDICATE CLITICS AND CLAUSE STRUCTURE; 7 SKETCH OF A REDUCTIONIST APPROACH TO SYNTACTIC VARIATION AND DEPENDENCIES; 8 APPENDIX: THETA-THEORY AND EXTRACTION; INDEX