334 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
334 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
334 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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"Feature neutrality" is an issue that has received much attention among linguists. For example, consider the sentence, "I have never, and will never, put my name on this document." Here, the verb 'put' acts simultaneously as a past participle (as in "have never put") and a base form (as in "will never put"), and is therefore said to be neutral between the two forms. Similar examples have been... Read more
Acknowledgements List of Tables List of Figures Introduction Chapter 1: Empirical Background Chapter 2: Theoretical Background Chapter 3: Neutrality and Mixed-wh interrogatives Chapter 4: Neutrality and Verbal Argument Alternatives Chapter 5: Neutrality and Predicative Phrases Chapter 6: Category Neutrality and Adverbial Nouns Conclusion Appendix A: Attestations of Mixed-wh interrogatives Appendix B: Questionnaire items Bibliography Index
Biography
Neil Whitman received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from The Ohio State University in 2002.
