Exploring the syntax-semantics interface /
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| Author / Creator: | Van Valin, Robert D. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
| Description: | xxi, 310 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5703506 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Syntactic structure
- 1.0. General considerations
- 1.1. The layered structure of the clause
- 1.2. Operators
- 1.3. Formal representation of clause structure
- 1.4. Clause structure in dependent-marking and head-marking languages
- 1.5. Adjuncts and the periphery
- 1.6. Adpositional and noun phrase structure
- 2. Lexical representation and semantic roles
- 2.0. General considerations
- 2.1. Verb classes and logical structures
- 2.2. Operators
- 2.3. Nouns and noun phrases
- 2.4. Semantic roles
- 3. Information structure
- 3.0. General considerations
- 3.1. Topic and focus
- 3.2. Focus structure and focus types
- 3.3. Morphosyntactic marking of focus structure
- 3.4. Formal representation of focus structure
- 3.5. Focus structure and the notion of VP
- 3.6. Focus structure and the interpretation of quantifier scope
- 4. Syntactic relations and case marking
- 4.0. General considerations
- 4.1. Do all languages have grammatical relations?
- 4.2. Privileged syntactic arguments
- 4.3. Types of privileged syntactic arguments
- 4.4. Case marking and agreement
- 4.5. Other syntactic functions
- 5. Linking syntactic and semantic representations in simple sentences
- 5.0. General considerations
- 5.1. The linking algorithm
- 5.2. The role of the lexicon in grammar
- 5.3. Reflexivization
- 5.4. Focus structure and linking
- 6. The structure of complex sentences
- 6.0. General considerations
- 6.1. Nexus relations
- 6.2. The layered structure of the clause and juncture
- 6.3. Symmetrical vs asymmetrical linkage
- 6.4. Operators in complex sentences
- 6.5. Complementizer position
- 6.6. Interclausal semantic relations and the interclausal relations hierarchy
- 6.7. Focus structure in complex sentences
- 6.8. Complex NPs
- 6.9. Syntactic templates for complex sentences
- 7. Linking syntax and semantics in complex sentences
- 7.0. General considerations
- 7.1. Linking in clausal junctures
- 7.2. Linking in nuclear junctures
- 7.3. Linking in core junctures
- 7.4. Linking in complex noun phrases
- 7.5. Reflexivization in complex sentences
- 7.6. Constraints on linking in WH-questions and related constructions
- References
- Languages index
- Subject index