| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 372 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today ;
v. 93
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 93.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
The Syntax of Nonsententials; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; Toward a nonsentential analysis in generative grammar; The syntax of nonsententials; "Small structures''; Neither fragments nor ellipsis; Big questions, small answers; Extending the nonsentential analysis; The narrowing acquisition path; Nonsententials and second language acquisition; How language adapts to the brain; Nonsententials and agrammatism; Reduced syntax in (prototypical) pidgins; Copula variation in Guyanese Creole and AAVE; Epilogue; Index of languages; Index of names. |
| Summary |
This volume brings the data that many in formal linguistics have dismissed as peripheral straight into the core of syntactic theory. By bringing together experts from syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, language acquisition, aphasia, and pidgin and creole studies, the volume makes a multidisciplinary case for the existence of nonsententials, which are analyzed in various chapters as root phrases and small clauses (Me; Me First!; Him worry?!; Class in session), and whose distinguishing property is the absence of Tense, and, with it, any syntactic phenomena that rely on Tense. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. |
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Language acquisition.
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Language acquisition. |
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Pidgin languages.
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Pidgin languages. |
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Creole dialects.
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Creole dialects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Progovac, Ljiljana.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Syntax of nonsententials. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2006 (DLC) 2006042931 |
| ISBN |
9789027293350 (electronic book) |
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902729335X (electronic book) |
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9027233578 |
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9789027233578 |
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