Subject and object in modern English (Outstanding dissertations in linguistics) - Hardcover

Barbara H. Partee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824096797 ISBN 13: 9780824096793

Publisher: Garland Pub, 1979

Synopsis

Subject and Object in Modern English, first published in 1979, deals with subjects in the English language (one of the two main constituents of a clause), first comparing two possible notions of derived subject and then re-examining some derived subjects which had been assumed to be underlying subjects as well. This title also concerns itself with the basic verb phrase relations; not only with direct and indirect objects, but locative and directional phrases, with-phrases, and of-phrases considered. This book will be of interest to students of English language and linguistics.

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About the Author

Paul Portner is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Acting Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science at Georgetown University. He is the author of numerous articles on topics such as mood and modality, tense and aspect, and the syntax/semantics interface.

Barbara H. Partee is Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is the author of several landmark essays in formal semantics. She has written and edited numerous books, including "Mathematical Methods in Linguistics "(with Alice ter Meulen and Robert Wall, 1990), "Montague Grammar "(edited, 1976), and "Quantification in Natural Languages "(edited, with Emmon Bach, Eloise Jelinek, and Angelika Kratzer, 1995).

Edition details

• Publisher: Garland Pub
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0824096797
• ISBN 13: 9780824096793
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 100
• Editor: Jorge Hankamer