<p><STRONG>Predicates and their Subjects</STRONG> is an in-depth study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predicate relation. Starting from where the author's 1983 dissertation left off, the book argues that there is syntactic constraint that clauses (small an
Subjects and Predicables: A Study in Subject-Predicate Asymmetry
โ Scribed by John Heintz
- Publisher
- De Gruyter Mouton
- Year
- 1973
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 116
- Series
- Janua Linguarum. Series Minor; 79
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
PREFACE
CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION
II. FREGE'S ARGUMENTS AND CONTRASTING VIEWS
III. Subject-Predicate Asymmetry: Two Contemporary Views
IV. SUBJECT-PREDICATE SYMMETRY: EXPLAINING VARIABLES AWAY
V. PREDICABLES
GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED
INDEX
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