This book presents an innovative theory of syntactic categories and the lexical classes they define. It revives the traditional idea that these are to be distinguished notionally (semantically). It allows for there to be peripheral members of a lexical class which may not obviously conform to the ge...

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Main Author:	Anderson, John M. 1941- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1997
Series:	Cambridge studies in linguistics 82
Subjects:	Grammatik Grammar, Comparative and general / Syntax Grammar, Comparative and general / Grammatical categories Semantics Grammatische Relation Wortart Grammatische Kategorie Generative Grammatik
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	This book presents an innovative theory of syntactic categories and the lexical classes they define. It revives the traditional idea that these are to be distinguished notionally (semantically). It allows for there to be peripheral members of a lexical class which may not obviously conform to the general definition. The author proposes a notation based on semantic features which accounts for the syntactic behaviour of classes. The book also presents a case for considering this classification - again in rather traditional vein - to be basic to determining the syntactic structure of sentences. Syntactic structure is thus erected in a very restricted fashion, without recourse to movement or empty elements
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 352 pages)
ISBN:	9780511519734
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9780511519734