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1 online resource (263 pages) |
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Routledge Library Editions: Syntax ; v. 18 |
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Routledge Library Editions: Syntax
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Preface; Table of Contents; Notational Conventions; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Relational grammar; 1.1 Basic concepts; 1.2 Clause structure; 1.3 Constructions, rules, and laws; 1.4 Why relational grammar; 2 Verb classes; 2.1 Inflecting verbs; 2.1.1 Person agreement; 2.1.2 Number agreement; 2.1.2.1 Dual; 2.1.2.2 Exhaustive; 2.1.2.3 Multiple; 2.2 Plain verbs; 2.3 Spatial verbs; 2.3.1 Arguments against person agreement for Spatial verbs; 2.3.1.1 Reciprocal |
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2.3.2 Arguments against number agreement for Spatial verbs2.3.2.1 Multiple; 2.3.2.2 Exhaustive; 2.4 Test cases: ""Irregular verbs; Footnotes to Chapter 2; 3 Embedded structures; 3.1 Arguments for embedded structures; 3.1.1 Subject pronoun copy; 3.1.2 Negative marking; 3.1.3 Topicalization; 3.1.4 Conjunctions/Discourse markers; Footnotes to Chapter 3; 4 Predicates; 4.1 Distinctions between grammatical categories; 4.1.1 Adjectives; 4.1.2 Nouns; 4.1.3. Verbs; 4.2 ""Predicate"" as a grammatical relation; 4.2.1 Arguments for predicatehood; 4.2.1.1 Sentential complements; 4.2.1.2 Short answers |
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4.2.2 Distinction between predicate and attributive adjectives4.2.2.1 Resultative inflection; 4.2.2.2 Adverbs; 4.2.2.2 Facial adverbs; Footnotes to Chapter 4; 5 Subjecthood; 5.1 Verb agreement; 5.1.1 Two analyses of verb agreement; 5.1.2 Agreement marker omission; 5.1.3 FORCE-type verbs; 5.2 An alternative analysis; 5.3 Modals; 5.3.1 Arguments for stating the rule in terms of"" subject'; 5.3.2 Arguments for modals as predicates; 5.4 SELF pronouns; 5.5 Test cases: Sentence-initial nominals; 5.5.1 Modals; 5.5.2 SELF pronouns; 5.5.3 Subject agreement; 5.5.4 Ambiguous sentences |
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5.5.5 Possible analysesFootnotes to Chapter 5; 6 Verb agreement; 6.1 Arguments against the source-goal analysis of verb agreement; 6.1.1 Backwards verbs; 6.1.2 The class of Inflecting verbs; 6.2 Stating the verb agreement rule; 6.2.1 Arguments for the advancement analysis; 6.2.1.1 An argument for final 2-hood: Sign Order; 6.2.1.2 An argument for initial 2-hood: Locus shifting; 6.2.1.2.1 An argument against a thematic analysis of locus shifting; 6.2.1.3 The indirect object relation; Footnotes to Chapter 6; 7 Classifiers and Indices; 7.1 Arguments for clausehood of Noun + Classifier sequences |
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7.1.1 Sentential complements7.1.2 Arguments for predicatehood of classifiers; 7.1.2.1 Short answers; 7.1.2.2 Linear position of verbs; 7.1.2.3 Facial adverbs; 7.1.3 An argument for 1-hood of the sentence-initial nominal: Modals; 7.2 Sign order; 7.2.1 Discourse ordering constraint; 7.3 Other complex classifier sequences; 7.3.1 Other ""Locative object-subject-verb"" sequences; 7.3.1.1 An argument against 2-hood of sentence-initial nominal: Locus shifting; 7.3.1.2 An argument against sentence-initial nominal as oblique: Topicalization; 7.3.1.3 A proposed account; 7.3.2 ""S-O-V"" sequences |
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7.4 Indices |
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Print version record |
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American Sign Language.
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English language -- Syntax.
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English language -- Morphology.
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American Sign Language
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English language -- Morphology
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English language -- Syntax
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315449661 |
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1315449668 |
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