Guglielmo Cinque

The Syntax of Relative Clauses

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on a wide range of languages, Cinque argues that all relative clause types derive from a single, double-headed, structure.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9781108479707
• ISBN-10: 1108479707
• Artikelnr.: 58502820

Autorenporträt

Guglielmo Cinque is Professor of Linguistics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Preliminaries
2. Deriving the cross-linguistically attested types of restrictive/maximalizing relative clauses from a double-headed structure
3. Deriving the other types of relative clauses from a double-headed structure
4. 'Strategies' for the realization of the internal head
5. Some residual questions
Conclusion
Appendix. Possible evidence for the existence of non-'raising' derivations.