Objects and Other Subjects: Grammatical Functions, Functional Categories and Configurationality (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (52))

ISBN 10: 1402000642 / ISBN 13: 9781402000645

Published by Springer, 2001

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• Title: Objects and Other Subjects: Grammatical Functions, Functional Categories and Configurationality (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (52))
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402000642
• ISBN 13: 9781402000645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

The papers in this volume examine the current role of grammatical functions in transformational syntax in two ways: (i) through largely theoretical considerations of their status, and (ii) through detailed analyses for a wide variety of languages. Taken together the chapters in this volume present a comprehensive view of how transformational syntax characterizes the elusive but often useful notions of subject and object, examining how subject and object properties are distributed among various functional projections, converging sometimes in particular languages.