Functional Structure in DP and IP: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 1

ISBN-13: 9780195148800 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 248 str.

Guglielmo Cinque

Opis

This volume presents the first results of a long-term research project, funded by the Italian government, which aims at mapping out the fine functional structure of sentences, nominal phrases, and other major phrases making up sentences. In particular, it examines the functional structure of DPs (determiner phrases) and IPs (inflection phrases).

Recenzje

This volume makes an important contribution to the study of functional categories. One of its strengths is bringing together research on a large number of unrelated languages, including sign languages and child languages. Thus, it goes beyond discovering functional heads necessary to account for a range of phenomena in specific languages and into streamlining a universal theory of functional architecture.