Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
b. Morphophonology: [IntPξ 1 ,...,ξn]a corresponds to Syntax: [xi,...,xn([yi,...,ym])]a whereξicorresponds to xi To see how this ...
Normally the syntax of English is very insistent that the direct object precede any time adverbials, as seen in the contrast (20 ...
The use of traditional trees need notbe proscribed altogether. However, wemust understand thattherelationbetween Det andtheis no ...
Tosu mupthelasttwosections: Theoverallarchitectureofgra m mar consistsofa collectionofgenerativeco mponents G 1 ...,Gn that crea ...
combinatorial system. In neither of these approaches are theunits of thissystem nouns and verbs;they are entitieslike individual ...
incommonis nottheir semanticsbut their abilitytooccur in noun positionsinrelationtoverbs and prepositions, their abilityto gover ...
In terms of this organization, the linguistic structure elaborated in Fig. 1.1 can be seen as the consequence of constructingstr ...
Fig. 5.5 Elaborations on the tripartite architecture THE PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE 127 ...
encodes standard constituent structure and f-structure encodes grammatical relations. Autolexical Syntax (Fig. 5.5b) elaborates ...
The head of a phrase is an open-class category which determines the category of the phrase; for instance, NPs are headed by nou ...
approach is that the idea of multiple generative components connected by interface components has been extended in thoroughgoing ...
1980; Koster 1987; Di Sciullo and Williams 1987; Anderson 1992; Büring 1993). The idea is that phrasal syntactic combination tak ...
e. shh, psst, tsk-tsk f. abracadabra, hocus-pocus g. bow-wow, cockadoodledoo Unlike ordinary words, these can be used on their o ...
will say thatdevour “licenses” (or“requires”or, more simply, “takes”) two semantic arguments. The conceptual structure of the ve ...
Hence one of the semantic arguments ofeatalways corresponds to a syntactic argument, but the other may remain implicit. It is of ...
(30) Mr. Mustard committed the murder (carefully) (in the attic) (at noon). I will use the term “modifiers” for the contribution ...
g. A wall surrounds/divides the city. h. This book has/contains/comprises 13 chapters. i. The meeting lasted seven hours. The bo ...
Nouns too have argument structures. Semantic arguments appear, for instance, with kinship expressions likethe father of the brid ...
(39) a.proud of Bill, afraid of the dark, nervous about the Y2K problem b. eager to please, nervous that the computer will crash ...
Where will they be located in a simple active clause? Where will they be located in general? We take these questions up succes ...
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