1st Edition

Theoretical Implications of Some Global Phenomena in Syntax

By Ava Berinstein Copyright 1979
282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

This title, first published in 1979, centres on control and binding in networks of anaphora. A wide variety of phenomena which are superficially global rather than local processes are examined, and the study deals directly with aspects of natural logic and finds its empirical motivation in concrete grammatical phenomena, thereby accounting for similarities and differences between natural... Read more

Foreword;  Introduction;  Footnotes;  1. Cyclic Indexing  2. Definite Descriptions  3. The Cyclic Nature of the Ross-Langacker Constraints  4. The Closeness Constraint  5. Other Aspects of Distributivity in French and their Theoretical Implications  6. Bound Variables;  Conclusion;  References

Biography

Gilles Fauconnier