The Raising of Predicates: Predicative Noun Phrases and the Theory of Clause Structure: 80 (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 80) - Tapa blanda

Moro, Andrea

 
9780521024785: The Raising of Predicates: Predicative Noun Phrases and the Theory of Clause Structure: 80 (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 80)
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ISBN 10: 0521024781 ISBN 13: 9780521024785
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Sinopsis

New light is shed on some classical issues such as the distribution and nature of expletives, locality theory, cliticization phenomena, possessive constructions, and the cross-linguistic variations of the Definiteness Effect.

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Andrea Moro is Full Professor of General Linguistics at University San Raffaele in Milan and Head of the Interfaculty Graduate Program in Cognitive Neuroscience. His publications include The raising of Predicates (1997), published by Cambridge University Press, and Dynamic Antisymmetry (2000).

De la contraportada

One of the basic premises of the theory of syntax is that clause structures can be minimally identified as containing a verb phrase, playing the role of predicate, and a noun phrase, playing the role of subject. In this study Andrea Moro identifies a new category of copular sentences, namely inverse copular sentences, where the noun phrase which co-occurs with the verb phrase plays the role of predicate, occupying the position which is canonically reserved for subjects, and the subject is embedded in the verb phrase. The consequences of such a discovery are pervasive. Four distinct areas of syntax are unified into a unique natural class. Along with inverse copular sentences, existential sentences, sentences with seem and unaccusative constructions are analysed as involving the raising of a predicative noun phrase to the most prominent position in the clause structure. In addition, new light is shed on some classical issues such as the distribution and nature of expletives, locality theory, cliticization phenomena, possessive constructions and the cross-linguistic variations of the Definiteness Effect.

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Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
0521024781
ISBN 13 
9780521024785
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
332
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