Greville Corbett / M. Fraser / Scott McGlashan (eds.)

Heads in Grammatical Theory

Herausgeber: Corbett, Greville G.; McGlashan, Scott; Fraser, Norman M.

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the idea of the 'head' or dominating element of a phrase.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780521026529
• ISBN-10: 0521026520
• Artikelnr.: 21795850

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors
1. Introduction Norman M. Fraser, Greville G. Corbett and Scott McGlashan
2. The head of Russian numeral expressions Greville G. Corbett
3. The phonology of heads in Haruai Bernard Comrie
4. Patterns of headedness Ronnie Cann
5. Head-hunting on the trail of the nominal Janus Andrew Radford
6. The headedness of noun-phrases: slaying the nominal hydra John Payne
7. Head- versus dependent-marking: the case of the clause Nigel Vincent
8. Heads in discourse: structural versus functional centricity Johanna Nichols
9. Heads in head-driven phrase structure grammar Robert D. Borsley
10. Heads and lexical semantics Scott McGlashan
11. Heads, parsing and word-order universals John A. Hawkins
12. Do we have heads in our minds? Richard A. Hudson
13. Heads, bases and functors Arnold M. Zwicky
References
Index.