Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-393).
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Cover -- Contents -- Prologue to Discovering Syntax -- Chapter 1. Types of syntactic categories and features -- Chapter 2. The restricted complement space of lexical frames -- Chapter 3. The autonomy of the (syntactic) lexicon and syntax: Insertion conditions for derivational and inflectional morphemes -- Chapter 4. Secondary predication, stationary particles, and silent prepositions -- Chapter 5. Projecting indirect objects -- Chapter 6. The flat structure economy of semi-lexical heads -- Chapter 7. How clitics license null phrases: A theory of the lexical interface -- Chapter 8. English indirect passives -- Chapter 9. A theory of phrase structure based on Extended Projections -- Chapter 10. The lower operator position with parasitic gaps -- Chapter 11. Unspecified categories as the key to root constructions -- Backmatter.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The essays in this volume, dating from 1991 onwards, focus on highly characteristic constructions of English, Romance languages, and German. Among clause-internal structures, the most puzzling are English double objects, particle constructions, and non-f.
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Title
Discovering syntax.
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Languages, Modern-- Syntax.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Syntax.