Prolegomenon to a theory of argument structure /

Prolegomenon to a theory of argument structure /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hale, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Locke), 1934-2001.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 281 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 39 Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 39.
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11119052

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Other authors / contributors:	Keyser, Samuel Jay, 1935-
ISBN:	9780262274722 0262274728 0585444714 9780585444710
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Hale, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Locke), 1934- Prolegomenon to a theory of argument structure. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002 0262083086

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Basic Elements of Argument Structure
Ch. 2 Bound Features, Merge, and Transitivity Alternations
Ch. 3 Conflation
Ch. 4 Native American Perspective
Ch. 5 On the Double Object Construction
Ch. 6 There-Insertion Unaccusatives
Ch. 7 Aspect and the Syntax of Argument Structure
Ch. 8 On the Time of Merge.