| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 239 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today,
0166-0829 ; v. 111
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 111.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Coreference, Modality, and Focus; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Tensed modals; Weak Crossover, specificity and LF chains; Conditions on sub-extraction; Focus, exhaustivity, and deletion in English Pseudogapping; Reconstruction and scope in exclamative sentences; Reconstruction without movement; From polarity to modality; Beyond the Infinitive vs. Subjunctive Rivalry; Romance infinitives with subjects, subjunctive obviation and Control Theory; On the syntactic features of epistemic and root modals; Subject index. |
| Summary |
This volume is a collection of selected papers originally presented at the XVIth Colloquium on Generative Grammar that was held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. All the papers deal with current issues within the generative framework, mostly paying attention to phenomena pertaining to the syntax-semantics interface. The major concerns are coreference relations, modals and modality, and focus/ellipsis. More specifically, the contributions present research findings from different languages, often adopting a comparative perspective, and include studies on sub-extraction from subjects and obj. |
| 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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Semantics.
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Semantics. |
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Reference (Linguistics)
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Reference (Linguistics) |
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Modality (Linguistics)
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Modality (Linguistics) |
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Focus (Linguistics)
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Focus (Linguistics) |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Eguren, Luis.
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Fernández Soriano, Olga.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Coreference, modality, and focus. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2007 (DLC) 2007035182 |
| ISBN |
9789027291257 (electronic book) |
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902729125X (electronic book) |
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9789027233752 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9027233756 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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