| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 320 pages) : illustrations |
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Outstanding dissertations in linguistics |
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Outstanding dissertations in linguistics.
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| Contents |
1. Empirical background -- 2. Theoretical background -- 3. Category neutrality and mixed-Wh interrogatives -- 4. Category neutrality and verbal argument alternations -- 5. Category neutrality and predicative phrases -- 6. Category neutrality and adverbial nouns -- 7. Conclusion |
| Summary |
""Feature neutrality"" is an issue that has received much attention among linguists. For example, consider the sentence, ""I have never, and will never, put my name on this document."" Here, the verb 'put' acts simultaneously as a past participle (as in ""have never put"") and a base form (as in ""will never put""), and is therefore said to be neutral between the two forms. Similar examples have been found for many languages. The accepted wisdom is that neutrality is possible only for morphosyntactic features such as verb form, gender, number, declension class-not at the level of gross syntact |
| Notes |
Based on the author's thesis, Ohio State University |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-312) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammatical categories.
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Semantics.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Neutralization (Linguistics)
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Semantics
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semantics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammatical categories.
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Semantics.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Neutralization (Linguistics)
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammatical categories
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Neutralization (Linguistics)
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Semantics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203495381 |
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9780203495384 |
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9786610236336 |
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661023633X |
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9781135876777 |
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1135876770 |
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9781135876722 |
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113587672X |
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9781135876760 |
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1135876762 |
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9781138969971 |
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1138969974 |
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