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FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE IN DP AND IP
THE CARTOGRAPHY OF SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES VOLUME 1 |
| By: |
Guglielmo Cinque (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£112.50 |
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£112.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195148800 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195148800 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2002 |
| Series: |
Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax |
| Pages: |
242 |
| Description: |
In this volume, Guglielmo Cinque, one of the worlds leading theoretical syntacticians, presents the first results of a long term research project funded by the Italian Government. With a panel of distinguished linguists, Cinque attempts to develop a comprehensive mapping of various functional structures in natural structures in natural languages. This major collective research project in generative grammar is a valuable contribution to the field, providing asystematic and empirical look at the various functional heads found in the sentence and in other phrases in a variety of world languages. this is the first of several potential volumes within the comparative syntax series that will publish the results of this project. It should be of substantial _interest to all linguists and students of formal syntax, and is likely to become an important sourcebook for future _ research. _ |
| Synopsis: |
This edited volume presents the first results of a long term research project, funded by the Italian Government, which aims at mapping out the fine functional structure of sentences, nominal phrases, and other major phrases making up sentences. Structural representations are seen to arise from the combinations of two kinds syntactic atoms: lexical elements (nouns, verbs, and adjectives) and functional elements (determiners, complementizers and various kinds of inflections), the first expressing the descriptive content, the second providing the functional architecture of syntactic structures. This study focuses on the latter, exploring in particular the functional structure of dps (determiner phrases, noun phrases having a determiner as its head: thus, the old man would be a determiner phrase headed by the, headed in turn by man, as its dependent) and ips(inflection phrases, another syntactic category to describe clauses without complement clauses: e.g. she married him would be an ip without the complementizer since).These papers also examine the functional structure of sentences in both verbal and signed languages, uncovering a rich hierarchy of functional projections hosting different classes a adjectival phrases. one of the major collective research projects that has emerged from contemporary research in generative grammar, this volume is highly rigorous empirically and theoretically and provides linguists with a very important body of analysis that is likely to influence future research. |
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numerous halftones and figures |
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Oxford University Press Inc |
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