Author: Paul Rowlett
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: french, negation, sentential
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1998-09-24
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 019511924X
ISBN-13: 9780195119244

This is the first full-length study of sentential negation phenomena in French. Paul Rowlett assesses, from a generative perspective, the respective contribution made to the expression of clausal polarity by ne, pas, and elements such as jamais and personne. His conclusions have far-reaching implications, leading to the controversial hypothesis that, despite widespread belief, French is not a negative concord language.

Author: Paul Rowlett
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: french, negation, sentential
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1998-09-24
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0195125916
ISBN-13: 9780195125917

This is the first full-length study of sentential negation phenomena in French. Paul Rowlett assesses, from a generative perspective, the respective contribution made to the expression of clausal polarity by ne, pas, and elements such as jamais and personne. His conclusions have far-reaching implications, leading to the controversial hypothesis that, despite widespread belief, French is not a negative concord language.

Author: Guy Deutscher
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: sentential, complementation, evolution, akkadian, change, syntactic
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-12-20
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0199532222
ISBN-13: 9780199532223

In this book Guy Deutscher examines the historical development of Akkadian, the oldest recorded Semitic language and one of the earliest attested languages. Two thousand years of texts from 2500BC to 500BC provide a unique source for the study of linguistic change.The first two parts of the book present an historical grammar of sentential complementation. Part one traces the emergence of new structures, describing how finite complements first developed, and tracing the grammaticalization of the quotative construction. Part two examines the language’s functional history. It looks at the e

Author: Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: theoretical, linguistics, studies, oxford, sentential, stress, syntax
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-10-04
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0199219249
ISBN-13: 9780199219247

This book explores the nature of sentential stress, how it is assigned and its interaction with information structure. Its central thesis is that the position of sentential or nuclear stress, the element with the highest prominence in the sentence, is determined syntactically and that cross-linguistic differences in this respect follow from syntactic variations. Presented in a Chomskian multiple spell-out framework, the author develops the Sentential Stress Rule and provides a systematic way of accounting for a wide range of cross-linguistic facts, with data taken from Persian, English, German

Author: Dany Jasper
Publisher: Foris Pubns USA
Keywords: geest, linguistic, models, wim, honour, complementation, lexicon, studies, sentential
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1989-04-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9067654159
ISBN-13: 9789067654159

Author: Theodore Hailperin
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Keywords: status, technical, applications, current, development, probability, logic, origins, sentential
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1996-09
List price: $43.50
ISBN-10: 0934223459
ISBN-13: 9780934223454

Author: Johan Rooryck
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: routledge, leading, linguists, languages, romance, sentential, complementation, perspectives, configurations
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2000-08-28
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 0415187796
ISBN-13: 9780415187794

This book forms a valuable illustration of the interaction between syntax and semantics where matrix and embedded sentences meet. Firstly, the book focuses on infinitival complements. The author provides new perspectives on raising and control, longstanding problems in infinitival complementation. He then examines the problem of clitic ordering in infinitives in Romance languages. Secondly, the book addresses various aspects of Wh- sentences: extraction from negative and factive islands, the syntax of free relatives, agreement in relative clauses, and the relation between French relative an