A new theory of grammar which explores the old distinction between OV and VO languages and their underlying basic asymmetry.
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ISBN:1283870509
ISBN:9781283870504
ISBN:1107017750
ISBN:9781107017757
ISBN:1316604802
ISBN:9781316604809
ISBN:9781139615983
ISBN:113961598X
ISBN:1139084631
ISBN:9781139084635
ISBN:1139625284
ISBN:9781139625289
Physical Description:1 online resource remote
Publisher:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
6.1 Overview and introduction6.2 Structural availability of positions for adverbials; 6.2.1 Admissibility of low positions for 'high' adverbials in OV but not in VO; 6.2.2 Misidentified superiority effects for 'higher-order' wh-adverbials in VO; 6.2.3 Compactness of head-initial VPs excludes VP-internal adverb positions in VO; 6.2.4 The edge effect occurs only with VO structures and rules out pre-VP adverbials; 6.2.5 Expanded scope domains in OV (due to verb-clustering-triggered clause union); 6.3 At the semantics interface; 6.3.1 Syntactic identification and semantic integration.
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