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Prolegomenon to a Theory of Argument Structure

Prolegomenon to a Theory of Argument Structure

Hale, Ken
Keyser, Samuel Jay

Paperback

Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, Book 39

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 0262582147
ISBN13: 9780262582148
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Oct 11 2002
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.12
Language: English
This work is the culmination of an eighteen-year collaboration between Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser on the study of the syntax of lexical items. It examines the hypothesis that the behavior of lexical items may be explained in terms of a very small number of very simple principles. In particular, a lexical item is assumed to project a syntactic configuration defined over just two relations, complement and specifier, where these configurations are constrained to preclude iteration and to permit only binary branching. The work examines this hypothesis by methodically looking at a variety of constructions in English and other languages.

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