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Linguistic Inquiry Monographs - 39: Prolegomenon to a Theory of Argument Structure

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This work is the culmination of an eighteen-year collaboration between Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser on the study of the syntax of lexical items. It examines the hypothesis that the behavior of lexical items may be explained in terms of a very small number of very simple principles. In particular, a lexical item is assumed to project a syntactic configuration defined over just two relations, complement and specifier, where these configurations are constrained to preclude iteration and to permit only binary branching. The work examines this hypothesis by methodically looking at a variety of constructions in English and other languages.

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Linguistic Inquiry Monographs - 39: Prolegomenon to a Theory of Argument Structure, Kenneth L. Hale, Samuel Jay Keyser

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2002
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Titolo
Linguistic Inquiry Monographs - 39: Prolegomenon to a Theory of Argument Structure
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
2002
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In brossura
Pagine
296
ISBN10
0262582147
ISBN13
9780262582148
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This work is the culmination of an eighteen-year collaboration between Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser on the study of the syntax of lexical items. It examines the hypothesis that the behavior of lexical items may be explained in terms of a very small number of very simple principles. In particular, a lexical item is assumed to project a syntactic configuration defined over just two relations, complement and specifier, where these configurations are constrained to preclude iteration and to permit only binary branching. The work examines this hypothesis by methodically looking at a variety of constructions in English and other languages.