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Structure of Complementation.
Title:
Structure of Complementation.
Author:
Quicoli, Antonio Carlos.
ISBN:
9789027271266
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (184 pages)
Series:
Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis ; v.3

Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis
Contents:
THE STRUCTURE OF COMPLEMENTATION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FOREWORD -- Table of contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. ON THE PORTUGUESE VERB PARECER -- 1.0 Introduction -- 2.0 Some limitations -- 3.0 Three alternative analyses -- 3.1 Inadequacy of the Aux-parecer hypothesis -- 3.2 Inadequacies of the EQUI-NP hypothesis -- 4.0 A fourth alternative analysis -- 5.0 The Agreement Problem : An Explanatory Theory -- NOTES -- III. ON 'MISSING SUBJECTS' IN PORTUGUESE -- 1.0 Introduction -- 2.0 On Complement Subject Deletion -- 2.1 The Deletion Hypothesis -- 2.2 Inadequacies of the Complex VP Hypothesis -- 2.3 Inadequacies of the Interpretive Hypothesis -- 3.0 The cyclic nature of Complement Subject Deletion -- 4.0 Subject Pronoun Deletion -- 5.0 The non-cyclic nature of Subject Pronoun Deletion -- 6.0 The 'Doom' Hypothesis -- NOTES -- IV. SOME PROPERTIES OF AGREEMENT RULES -- A. PRELIMINARIES -- B. SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT IN PORTUGUESE -- C. GENDER-NUMBER AGREEMENT IN PORTUGUESE -- D. CASE AGREEMENT IN ANIENT GREEK -- 1.0 Introduction -- 2.0 Inadequacies of the 'global' hypothesis -- 3.0 The 'transformational' hypothesis -- 3.1 Some properties of the rule of Case Agreement -- 3.2 The Cyclic Nature of Case Agreement -- 4.0 The Rule of Case Attraction in Greek -- 5.0 Case Agreement and Case Attraction : Refinements and Conclusions -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Abstract:
The study of complementation has received considerable attention in generative studies. Following Rosenbaum's (1967) pioneering study of the English complement system, there are extensive studies by Lakoff (1965), Ross (1967), Perlmutter (1971) and a large number of publications. More recent detailed studies are Emonds (1970) and Bresnan (1972) . These studies have increased enormously the body of factual knowledge about the complement system of English, and about the phenomenon of complementation in general. As a consequence there are a number of empirical hypotheses about the structure of human languages which must now be tested against facts of different languages. Of these hypotheses, perhaps the most interesting is that the grammars of all languages make use of the principle of the transformational cycle. Testing this hypothesis constitutes one of the main concerns of the present book. Furthermore, these studies have also raised numerous interesting empirical issues of great importance for linguistic theory, most of which are still awaiting fresh evidence from different languages in order to be settled. This study is directed towards resolving some of these issues by adducing relevent data, primarily from Portuguese.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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