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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Xuhui Hu |
ISBN: | 9780198808466 0198808461 9780198808473 019880847X |
OCLC Number: | 1065335883 |
Description: | xvi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | AcknowledgementsList of abbreviations1: Introduction2: Theoretical foundation:The syntactic structure of events3: The syntax and semantics of English resultatives4: The syntax of Chinese resultatives5: Resultatives at synchronic and diachronic levels6: Encoding Applied Arguments7: Non-canonical objects, motion events, and verb/satellite-framed typology8: ConclusionReferencesIndex |
Series Title: | Oxford linguistics.; Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics, 70. |
Responsibility: | Xuhui Hu. |
Abstract:
This book explores the syntax of events in the framework of generative grammar, focusing on the question of how conceptual meaning interacts with narrow syntactic computation. It provides insights into parametric theory, the relationship between core arguments and predicates, the syntax of non-core arguments, and the verb/satellite-framed typology.
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