Architectures, Rules, and Preferences: Variations on Themes by Joan W. Bresnan

ISBN-13: 9781575865607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 576 str.

Annie Zaenen

Opis

"Architectures, Rules, and Preferences" reflects the interests and honors the influence of Joan W. Bresnan s two decades of foundational work on Lexical-Functional Grammar. This comprehensive volume includes contributions by leading linguists on language typology, synchronic variation, language change, constituent structure, function identification, subject condition, control, complex predicates, NP internal structure, wh-constructions, syntactic features, and lexical issues. Featuring an impressive range of empirical and theoretical research, this collection covers more than a dozen spoken languages as well as American Sign Language."