Causatives in minimalism
This monograph studies issues of current minimalist concern, such as whether differences in the expression of argument and syntactic structure can all be attributed to the parameterization of specific functional heads. In particular, this book studies in-depth the extent to which variation in the expression of causation, available both intra- and crosslinguistically, can be accounted for by appealing only to the microparameterization of the causative head, Cause, as previously argued for by lin…
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- Full title :Causatives in minimalism / Mercedes Tubino Blanco.
Summary
This monograph studies issues of current minimalist concern, such as whether differences in the expression of argument and syntactic structure can all be attributed to the parameterization of specific functional heads. In particular, this book studies in-depth the extent to which variation in the expression of causation, available both intra- and crosslinguistically, can be accounted for by appealing only to the microparameterization of the causative head, Cause, as previously argued for by linguists such as Pylkkänen. It concludes that the microparameterization of Cause may explain some major.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):John Benjamins
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (294 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027286598, 9027286590, 1283174855, 9781283174855, 9786613174857, 6613174858
- oclc:ocn746897791
- LC Classification:P292
- Dewey Decimal:415/.6
Table of Contents
Causatives in Minimalism; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and symbols; Introduction; Contrasts in causatives; Theoretical framework; Exploring root causatives; English causatives with make; Productive causatives; Spanish productive causatives; Concluding remarks; References; Index.
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