Syntactic Phrase Structure Phenomena in Noun Phrases and Sentences

✍ Scribed by Christa Bhatt, Elisabeth Löbel, Claudia Maria Schmidt

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year: 1989
Tongue: English
Leaves: 198
Series: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today. 6
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The main topic of this volume is the phrase structural analysis of noun phrases and sentences. This analysis is based on recent ideas within the Government and Binding framework and makes crucial use of such modules as Theta assignment, Binding Theory, Case assignment, as well as different definitions of the notion Barrier. The ten papers deal with certain aspects of English and German noun phrases.

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