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In Relators and Linkers, Marcel den Dikken presents a syntax of predication and the inversion of the predicate around its subject, emphasizing meaningless elements (elements with no semantic load) that play an essential role in the establishment and syntactic manipulation of predication relationships. One such element, the RELATOR, mediates the relationship between a predicate and its subject in the base representation of predication structures. A second, the LINKER, connects the predicate to its subject in Predicate Inversion constructions. Den Dikken argues that all subject-predicate relationships are syntactically mediated by a RELATOR and that predication relationships in syntax are configurationally asymmetrical and non-directional. Discussing the inversion of the predicate around its subject and the distribution of LINKER elements surfacing between the inverted predicate and the subject, den Dikken presents an in-depth analysis of Predicate Inversion from the perspective of the minimalist theory of locality. Among the features by which Relators and Linkers distinguishes itself from past studies of predication is a detailed investigation of predication and Predicate Inversion inside the complex nominal phrase that makes a carefully documented case for the existence of two types of qualitative binominal noun phrases, one exploiting a predicate-specifier structure and the other employing a predicate-complement structure cum Predicate Inversion. Empirical data includes examples not only from English and Dutch but also from Hungarian, Hebrew, French, Italian, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and other languages. Den Dikken's analysis, cast in terms of the theory of generative grammar, fruitfully brings Chomskyan minimalist principles to bear on the discussion of predication and Predicate Inversion.
Grammar, Comparative and general --- Verb phrase. --- Predicate (Grammar) --- Verb phrase --- Phrasal verb --- Predicate --- Verbals --- LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General --- Grammar --- Comparative linguistics --- 801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Linguistics --- Philology
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The direction in which the structure of sentences and filler-gap dependencies are built is a topic of fundamental importance to linguistic theory and its applications. This book develops an integrated understanding of structure building, movement and locality embedded in a syntactic theory that argues for a 'top down' approach, presenting an explicit counterweight to the bottom-up derivations pervading the Chomskian mainstream. It combines a compact and comprehensive historical perspective on structure building, the cycle, and movement, with detailed discussions of island effects, the typology of long-distance filler-gap dependencies, and the special problems posed by the subject in clausal syntax. Providing introductions to the main issues, reviewing extant arguments for bottom-up and top-down approaches, and presenting several case studies in its development of a new theory, this book should be of interest to all students and scholars of language interested in syntactic structures and the dependencies inside them.
Deep structure (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Deep grammar --- Underlying structure (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar --- Linguistics --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- E-books --- Syntax. --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax
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Grammar, Comparative and general --- Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Categories, Grammatical --- Grammatical categories --- Categorization (Linguistics) --- Componential analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional grammar --- Functional linguistics --- Functional-structural analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Functional --- Grammatical functions --- Linguistics --- Structural linguistics --- Closed-class words (Grammar) --- Empty words (Grammar) --- Form words (Grammar) --- Function words (Grammar) --- Functors (Grammar) --- Grammatical words (Grammar) --- Structural words (Grammar) --- Function words. --- Grammatical categories. --- Major form classes --- Closed-class words --- Empty words --- Form words --- Functors --- Grammatical words --- Structural words --- 801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Function words --- Philology
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Grammar --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Clitiques --- Clitics --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Europe --- Languages --- Langues
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Hungarian language --- Magyar language --- Finno-Ugric languages --- Grammar --- Syntax --- 809.451 --- Hongaars --- Conferences - Meetings
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