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Adjectives, Number and Interfaces: Why Languages Vary: 61 (North Holland Linguistic Series: Linguistic Variations, 61) - Tapa dura

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Bouchard, Denis

 
9780080440552: Adjectives, Number and Interfaces: Why Languages Vary: 61 (North Holland Linguistic Series: Linguistic Variations, 61)
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ISBN 10: 008044055X ISBN 13: 9780080440552
Editorial: Brassey's (UK) Ltd, 2002

Sinopsis

A study of why languages vary the way they do in the domain of adjectival modification in French as contrasted with other Indo-European languages (English, Celtic, Walloon, Romanian, Italian). Rejecting previous well-known analyses in terms of syntactic movement to various functional heads, the author proposes a model in which external properties of interfaces are the foundations from which the variation is derived. Limiting severely the technical apparatus of syntax, the author argues that the properties of number at the interfaces are shown to provide a simple and precise solution for longstanding problems of compositionality raised by adjectival modification. There is also a unified analysis of the many other properties involved. The model provides a principled explanation of the variation concerning nominals without determiners (bare NPs) and determiners without nominals (clitics).

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Críticas

"This book represents a remarkable study devoted to the distribution and interpretation of adjectives within a syntactic structure and semantic network of the Noun Phrase (NP)." Zentralblatt fur Mathematik, Vol 1030, 2004.

"[This book] is definitely to be recommended, and is an extremely useful and orginal work, which should be of interest to both new and experienced researchers." --Andrew Simpson, Journal of Linguistics, Vol 40, 2004.

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A study of why languages vary the way they do in the domain of adjectival modification in French as contrasted with other Indo-European languages (English, Celtic, Walloon, Romanian, Italian). Rejecting previous well-known analyses in terms of syntactic movement to various functional heads, the author proposes a model in which external properties of interfaces are the foundations from which the variation is derived. Limiting severely the technical apparatus of syntax, the author argues that the properties of number at the interfaces are shown to provide a simple and precise solution for longstanding problems of compositionality raised by adjectival modification. There is also a unified analysis of the many other properties involved. The model provides a principled explanation of the variation concerning nominals without determiners (bare NPs) and determiners without nominals (clitics).

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Editorial
Brassey's (UK) Ltd
Año de publicación
2002
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ISBN 10 
008044055X
ISBN 13 
9780080440552
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Número de páginas
472
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