Voice and v: lessons from Acehnese
'Voice and V' investigates the syntactic structure of voice, using Acehnese as the empirical starting point. A central claim is that voice is encoded in a functional projection, VoiceP, which is distinct from, and higher than, vP. The book further claims that VoiceP may be associated with phi-features that semantically restrict the external argument position but do not saturate it. Through minor variations in the properties of VoiceP, a wide range of non-canonical voice constructions are explai…
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- Full title :Voice and v : lessons from Acehnese / Julie Anne Legate.
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'Voice and V' investigates the syntactic structure of voice, using Acehnese as the empirical starting point. A central claim is that voice is encoded in a functional projection, VoiceP, which is distinct from, and higher than, vP. The book further claims that VoiceP may be associated with phi-features that semantically restrict the external argument position but do not saturate it. Through minor variations in the properties of VoiceP, a wide range of non-canonical voice constructions are explained.
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- Publication Date:©2014
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- Publisher(s):The MIT Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, MA
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
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- Description:1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages) : illustrations.
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- ISBN:9780262320559, 026232055X, 9781322294001, 1322294003, 026202814X, 9780262028141, 0262526603, 9780262526609
- oclc:on1227492867
- Dewey Decimal:499/.224256
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