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| Other authors / contributors: | Keyser, Samuel Jay, 1935-
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| ISBN: | 9780262274722
0262274728
0585444714
9780585444710
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This work is the culmination of an eighteen-year collaboration between Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser on the study of the syntax of lexical items. It examines the hypothesis that the behavior of lexical items may be explained in terms of a very small number of very simple principles. In particular, a lexical item is assumed to project a syntactic configuration defined over just two relations, complement and specifier, where these configurations are constrained to preclude iteration and to permit only binary branching. The work examines this hypothesis by methodically looking at a variety of constructions in English and other languages.
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| Other form: | Print version: Hale, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Locke), 1934- Prolegomenon to a theory of argument structure. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002 0262083086
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