Alexander Grosu

Three Studies in Locality and Case

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Three Studies in Locality and Case treats a central issue in modern linguistic theory: the issue of locality as expressed in the behavior of non-overt categories. Alexander Grosu presents a detailed study of nominal phrases, free relatives and their semantic and syntaxical relationship to restricted relatives, and provides a critical re-evaluation of earlier views of "pro. In addition, he offers evidence of a variety of constructions in Rumanian involving null operators, and makes a thorough analysis of the genetive case in Rumanian. Grosu argues that a variety of syntactic properties which distinguish the relatives at issue from restrictives are traceable to two causal factors: that their internal relativized nominal is semantically weak and that the relative clause must function as an identifier of "pro. This work will be of interest to linguists working on theoretical issues, and also to those concerned with descriptive linguistics. Professor Grosu's study provies an original analysis of major constructions in Rumanian which have hitherto never been thoroughly investigated.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 158mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9780415108270
• ISBN-10: 0415108276
• Artikelnr.: 22322582

Autorenporträt

Alexander Grosu

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Study I: The syntax of Free Relative Constructions
Introduction
1. THE CONFIGURATIONAL PROPERTIES OF REALIS FRCs AND THEIR INTERNAL SYNTAX EFFECTS: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF EARLIER LITERATURE
2. THE SYNTAX OF NULL-OPERATOR REALIS FRCs
3. THE THEORY OF pro
ANTI-PIED-PIPING EFFECTS AND NON-NOMINAL FRCs
4. COINDEXATION-DEPENDENT PF PROCESSES
5. THE ANALYSIS OF NON-INDICATIVE/IRREALIS FRCs
Study II: Romanian determiners as functional categories
Introduction
6. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND EARLIER RESULTS
7. ON THE ENCLITICIZATION PROCESS
Study III: On Null Operators in Romanian
Introduction
8. pro-OPERATOR CONSTRUCTIONS
Notes
Bibliography
Index