| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 307 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 120
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Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 120.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-301) and index. |
| Contents |
The structure of argument structure -- The argument structure of adjectives -- Hybrid verbal adjuncts -- The derivation and control of infinitives -- Deriving the predicate instrumental. |
| Summary |
Each verb in natural language is associated with a set of arguments, which are not systematically predictable from the verb's meaning and are realized syntactically as the projected sentence's subject, direct object, etc. Babby puts forward the theory that this set of arguments (the verb's 'argument structure') has a universal hierarchical composition which directly determines the sentence's case and grammatical relations. The structure is uniform across language families and types, and this theory is supported by the fact that the core grammatical relations within simple sentences of all huma. |
| 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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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Babby, Leonard Harvey. Syntax of argument structure. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 (DLC) 2008053260 |
| ISBN |
9780511517969 (electronic book) |
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0511517963 (electronic book) |
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0511516789 (electronic book) |
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9780511516788 (electronic book) |
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9780511517471 |
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0511517475 |
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9780521417976 (cloth) |
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052141797X (cloth) |
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9780521182331 (paperback) |
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0521182336 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
9786612103919 |
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