Focus and secondary predication

by Winkler, Susanne

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Full title :Focus and secondary predication / by Susanne Winkler.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1997.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Mouton de Gruyter
Place of Publication:Berlin
Language:eng
Publication Date:1997.

Notes

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Tübingen, 1994.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (x, 481 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783110815214, 3110815214
oclc:ocn811372390
LC Classification:P295
Dewey Decimal:415

1. Introduction -- 1. Syntactic focus theory and the phenomenon of secondary predication -- 2. Roadmap -- 2. Syntactic representation of secondary predications -- 1. The small clause analysis -- 1.1. The theoretical program -- 1.2. Stowellâ€?s dilemma: problems with the ungoverned status of PRO -- 1.3. Alternative small clause proposals -- 1.4. Hoekstraâ€?s (1988) generalization of the small clause analysis to resultatives -- 1.5. Conclusion -- 2. The predication theory analysis -- 2.1. Williams (1980): the theory of predication

2.2. Williamsâ€? (1983) arguments against small clauses2.3. Conclusion -- 3. Distributional syntax of secondary predications -- 3.1. Rothsteinâ€?s (1985) elaboration of the predication theory -- 3.2. Culicover & Wilkins (1984, 1986): VP-internal representation of depictives -- 3.3. McNulty (1988): modifications of Rothsteinâ€?s analysis -- 3.4. Roberts (1988): the subject in VP hypothesis -- 4. Defending a complex predicate analysis -- 4.1. Larsonâ€?s (1988) complex predicate analysis -- 4.2. Modification of Larsonâ€?s proposal

4.3. Theta-theoretical considerations5. Conclusion -- 3. Focus structure in a principle-based theory of grammar -- 1. Introducti…

Subjects

Focus (Linguistics) Focus (Linguistique) Generative grammar Grammaire générative Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syn… Grammar, Comparative and general -- Ver… LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar … LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguist… Syntagme verbal Syntaxe