256 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the idea that functional categories are the flesh and blood of grammar'. From within the context of the Principles and Parameters framework put forward by Chomsky and others, Jamal Ouhalla develops the argument that much of what we understand by the term grammar and grammatical variation involves functional categories in a crucial way. His main thesis is that most, if not all,... Read more
Preface 1 Introduction 2 The X-bar status of the inflectional elements and the clause structure 3 On the nature of some word order parameters 4 The structure of noun phrases and word order variation
Biography
Jamal Ouhalla is a lecturer in Linguistics at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London University.
