The order of prepositional phrases in the structure of the clause:
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Main Author: Schweikert, Walter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. ©2005
Series:Linguistik aktuell Bd. 83
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-327) and indexes
The Order of Prepositional Phrases in the Structure of the Clause; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. ARGUMENTS AND MODIFIERS; 3. THE ORDER OF PPS IN GERMAN -- EMPIRICAL OBSERVATIONS; 4. RESTRICTIONS ON STRUCTURE AND MOVEMENT; 5. AFFIXES IN SYNTAX; 6. SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF THE SURFACE WORD ORDER OF PPS; 7. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; NAME INDEX; LANGUAGE INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX; The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
For a long time prepositions seemed to enjoy a clandestine status in linguistic research. This has changed with a novel path of inquiry into the inner structure of complex prepositional expressions. In a unique approach to the examination of the outer syntax of prepositions the author uses established and new syntactic and statistical tests to achieve a convincing hierarchy of thematic roles expressed by prepositional phrases. From an antisymmetric point of departure the author presents an overview of possible derivations that result in the observed different word orders of PPs in VO and OV la
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 337 pages)
ISBN:9027228078
9027294003
9789027228079
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