Adjectives, Number and Interfaces: Why Languages Vary (North Holland Linguistic Series: Linguistic Variations, Band 61) - Hardcover

Buch 7 von 8: North Holland Linguistic Series: Linguistic Variations

Bouchard, Denis

 
9780080440552: Adjectives, Number and Interfaces: Why Languages Vary (North Holland Linguistic Series: Linguistic Variations, Band 61)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 008044055X ISBN 13: 9780080440552
Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

A study of why languages vary the way they do in the domain of adjectival modification in French as contrasted with other Indo-European languages (English, Celtic, Walloon, Romanian, Italian). Rejecting previous well-known analyses in terms of syntactic movement to various functional heads, the author proposes a model in which external properties of interfaces are the foundations from which the variation is derived. Limiting severely the technical apparatus of syntax, the author argues that the properties of number at the interfaces are shown to provide a simple and precise solution for longstanding problems of compositionality raised by adjectival modification. There is also a unified analysis of the many other properties involved. The model provides a principled explanation of the variation concerning nominals without determiners (bare NPs) and determiners without nominals (clitics).

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
008044055X
ISBN 13 
9780080440552
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
470
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Nicht verfügbar