Coordination

Zusatztext Among the clear strenghts of this book is the coverage of data, both as to the number of languages taken into account and the many different and unusual types of coordination data discussed. The book is also easy to read ... Although I do not aways agree with the proposals that are made, the boldness with which they are argued for is often impressive and actually makes reading this book quite entertaining. Klappentext Johannessen focuses on coordination! i.e. structures with conjunctions such as and! but! and or. These are important words in their constructions because they have many properties in common with categories like verbs and prepositions. She has analyzed thirty-three languages and has found many striking similarities! presenting the first study of coordination from a cross-linguistic perspective. Her theory of syntactic coordination aims to be general and universal! and is broadly compatible with Chomsky's minimalist framework. Zusammenfassung Part of the "Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax" series, this volume is a study of co-ordination, i.e. structures with conjunctions such as "and", "but", and "or", arguing that these are important words in their constructions, rather than being unimportant and superfluous. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: Unbalanced and Extraordinary Balanced Coordination 3: Conjunctions as Heads 4: The Conjunction Phrase 5: Coordinate-Alpha 6: Extraction out of CoP 7: Semantic and Thematic Issues 8: Conclusion References Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Janne Bondi Johannessen, Janne Bondi (Lecturer Johannessen, Johannessen Janne Bondi
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 12.03.1998
• EAN: 9780198237723
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823772-3
• Seiten: 304
• Serien: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax; Oxford Studies in Comparative; Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology