A FUSION HYPOTHESIS FOR DUAL TO CONSTRUCTIONS IN ENGLISH: Operator Stacking, Purpose Ellipsis, and Pseudo-Passive Surface Forms

Panner, Maks (Author)

ISBN 10: 9999343228 / ISBN 13: 9789999343220

Published by Eliva Press, 2026

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407 pages. 6.00x0.92x9.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A FUSION HYPOTHESIS FOR DUAL TO CONSTRUCTIONS IN ENGLISH: Operator Stacking, Purpose Ellipsis, and Pseudo-Passive Surface Forms
• Publisher: Eliva Press
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9999343228
• ISBN 13: 9789999343220
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.54 kilograms

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Synopsis

A Fusion Hypothesis for Dual to Constructions in English is a high-novelty theoretical monograph with a clear empirical target and a broader architectural ambition. Its immediate contribution is a new analysis of English pseudo-passive like to-constructions. Its larger contribution is a theory of operator-domain compression: the idea that grammars can collapse adjacent functional operators into a single surface exponent when recoverability, anchoring, and homophony permit it. The book is important because it forces a revision of three assumptions: that passive is a reliable objecthood test, that prepositional passive contrasts are reducible to V–P reanalysis, and that homophony is merely a surface accident. Instead, it treats homophony as a structural resource, recoverability as a licensing condition, and objecthood as operator-relative. The result is a manuscript with real field-shifting potential: not because it denies previous syntax, but because it changes the explanatory unit from constituent position to operator-domain geometry.