Variation in P is an essential follow-up to the seminal proposals of the generative tradition regarding prepositional syntax. Recent research shows that prepositional phrases have a complex internal structure, and that the grammatical encoding of locative meaning has its own pla…
"Over the past thirty years, the generative framework has greatly contributed to the study of both the internal and external syntax of spatial adpositions, with the intent-among many other things-of giving a unitary account of their heterogeneous nature and behaviour. Once the C…
A descriptive syntax of the Ormulum
by Palmatier, Robert A., (Robert Allen)
fromJanua linguarum
Leading linguists and philosophers report on one of the most exciting and contentious fields in the study of language and mind, the notion that the meaning of an expression is determined by the meaning and syntax of its parts. The book reveals the connections in different lines …