1st Edition

A Theory of Stylistic Rules in English

By Michael Rochemont Copyright 1985
132 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

This book defends in part a particular elaboration of the stylistic rule component of the grammatical model first presented in Chomsky and Lasnik (1977). It is argued that stylistic rules share a number of fundamental properties, most significantly that they characterize noncanonical focusing constructions and that they make no contribution to the logical forms (LFs) of sentences they apply to in... Read more

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Biography

Michael S. Rochemont