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Routledge
504 Pages
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Routledge
504 Pages
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Routledge
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This volume collects together core papers by Richard K. Larson developing what has since come to be known as the "VP Shell" or "Split VP" analysis of sentential structure. The volume includes five previously published papers together with two major unpublished works from the same period: "Light Predicate Raising" (1989), which explores the interesting consequences of a leftward raising analysis... Read more
1.0 General Introduction 2.0 Datives: Background 2.1 On the Double Object Construction 2.2 Double Objects Revisited: Reply to Jackendoff 2.3 Promise and the Theory of Control 3.0 Complex Predicates: Background 3.1 Light Predicate Raising 3.2 Some Issues in Verb Serialization 3.3 Sentence Final Adverbs and "Scope" 4.0 Nominal Structure: Background 4.1 The Projection of DP (and DegP)
Biography
Richard K. Larson is Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University, US.
