Objects and Other Subjects

Grammatical Functions, Functional Categories and Configurationality
2001
ISBN: 978-1-4020-0064-5
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 52, 307 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1410 g

Reihe: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

The papers in this volume examine the current role of grammatical functions in transformational syntax in two ways: (i) through largely theoretical considerations of their status, and (ii) through detailed analyses for a wide variety of languages. Taken together the chapters in this volume present a comprehensive view of how transformational syntax characterizes the elusive but often useful notions of subject and object, examining how subject and object properties are distributed among various functional projections, converging sometimes in particular languages.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dubinsky, Stanley

Davies, William D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I: Overview.- 1. Remarks on Grammatical Functions in Transformational Syntax.- 2. Phrase Structure as a Representation of “Primitive” Grammatical Relations.- 3. Grammatical Functions, Thematic Roles, and Phrase Structure: Their Underlying Disunity.- 4. Is Case Another Name for Grammatical Function? Evidence from Objëct Asymmetries.- II: Objects.- 5. Subjects, Objects, and the EPP.- 6. Derived Objects in Malagasy.- III: Subjects.- 7. The Distribution of Subject Properties in Irish.- 8. The EPP in Spanish.- 9. On Predication and the Status of Subjects in Niuean.- 10. Functional Architecture and the Distribution of Subject Properties.- References.- Author Index.