A Fine-Grained Approach to Lexical and Functional Syntactic Categories
Heather Littlefield
Broschiertes Buch

A Fine-Grained Approach to Lexical and Functional Syntactic Categories

Evidence from English prepositions and their acquisition

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Most syntactic theories have come to rely on thedistinction between lexical and functional categories: nouns and verbs are lexical , whiledeterminers and inflection are functional . Agrowing body of research challenges this binarydivision, suggesting there are semi-lexical elements with both lexical and functional properties. This book develops a fine-grainedapproach where lexical and functional are nottaken as ends of the same continuum, but are seen astwo separate and distinct features, creating atwo-dimensional binary distinction ([±Lexical,±Functional]). This analysis is applied to thedo...