Description:This book explores licensing theory and its implications for a theory of syntax. It brings together a series of new papers which focus on developing a constrained set of licensing mechanisms relating elements in a syntactic representation, and on the different properties of lexical and functional heads as licenses of complements and specifiers. Directed toward an audience of syntacticians and those interested in the applications of syntactic theory, it demonstrates the expanding explanatory parts of this approach to syntax. Key Features* Principles of phrase structure, focusing on X-bar theory and category projection* Licensing of syntactic elements, including adjuncts* Properties of functional and lexical categories* Thematic relations and argument structureWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing. To get started finding Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing
Description: This book explores licensing theory and its implications for a theory of syntax. It brings together a series of new papers which focus on developing a constrained set of licensing mechanisms relating elements in a syntactic representation, and on the different properties of lexical and functional heads as licenses of complements and specifiers. Directed toward an audience of syntacticians and those interested in the applications of syntactic theory, it demonstrates the expanding explanatory parts of this approach to syntax. Key Features* Principles of phrase structure, focusing on X-bar theory and category projection* Licensing of syntactic elements, including adjuncts* Properties of functional and lexical categories* Thematic relations and argument structureWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing. To get started finding Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.