1st Edition

Three Studies in Locality and Case

By Alexander Grosu Copyright 1994
268 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 2004. This work consists of three studies in the syntax of natural languages, which pursue related theoretical goals, assume common phrase structural and locality sub-theories and share some of the languages from which the supporting data are drawn. A theme that is central to both the first and third studies and tangentially touched upon in the second study is that of the syntax... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, Study I: The syntax of Free Relative Constructions, Introduction, 1. THE CONFIGURATIONAL PROPERTIES OF REALIS FRCs AND THEIR INTERNAL SYNTAX EFFECTS: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF EARLIER LITERATURE, 2. THE SYNTAX OF NULL-OPERATOR REALIS FRCs, 3. THE THEORY OF pro, ANTI-PIED-PIPING EFFECTS AND NON-NOMINAL FRCs, 4. COINDEXATION-DEPENDENT PF PROCESSES, 5. THE ANALYSIS OF NON-INDICATIVE/IRREALIS FRCs, Study II: Romanian determiners as functional categories, Introduction, 6. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND EARLIER RESULTS, 7. ON THE ENCLITICIZATION PROCESS, Study III: On Null Operators in Romanian, Introduction, 8. pro-OPERATOR CONSTRUCTIONS, Notes, Bibliography, Index

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Alexander Grosu