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The syntax of adjectives :a comparative study
In The Syntax of Adjectives, Guglielmo Cinque offers cross-linguistic evidence that adjectives have two sources. Arguing against the standard view, and reconsidering his own earlier analysis, Cinque proposes that adjectives enter the nominal phase either as “adverbial” modifiers to the noun or as predicates of reduced relative clauses. Some of his evidence comes from a systematic comparison…
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On linearization :toward a restrictive theory
"An original, theoretical work on cross-linguistic word order from a leading syntactician"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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On Linearization: Toward a Restrictive Theory
Linearization, or the typical sequence of words in a sentence, varies tremendously from language to language. Why, for example, does the English phrase “a white table” need a different word order from the French phrase “une table blanche,” even though both refer to the same object? Guglielmo Cinque challenges the current understanding of word order variation, which assumes that word ord…
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