Crosslinguistic Research in Syntax and Semantics - Negation, Tense, and Clausal Architecture

Informationen zum Autor Raffaella Zanuttini is an associate professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of Negation and Clausal Structure and coeditor of Paths Towards Universal Grammar. Héctor Campos is an associate professor in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. He is the author of De la Oracion Simple a la Oracion compuesta and coeditor of Evolution and Revolution in Linguistic Theory. Elena Herburger is an associate professor in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. She is the author of What Counts . Paul H. Portner is an associate professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. He is the author of What Is Meaning? and a coeditor of Formal Semantics and the second edition of the Handbook of Semantics. Klappentext "This book contains truly fundamental contributions concerning the functional makeup of the sentence by some of the very best specialists around the world."?Guglielmo Cinque, Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio, Universita' Ca' Foscari Venezia, Ital Zusammenfassung Presenting advanced research in syntax and semantics! this title furthers theoretical claims in generative linguistics. It also features crosslinguistic studies that deal with clausal architecture! negation! and tense and aspect! and the issue of whether a statistical model can by itself capture the richness of human linguistic abilities.

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• Authors: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ROUND TABLE ON LAN/ Zanuttin, Raffaella Campos Zanuttini, ZANUTTINI RAFFAELLA CAMPOS HECTO
• Assisted by: Hector Campos (Editor), Héctor Campos (Editor), Elena Herburger (Editor), Paul H Portner (Editor), Paul H. Portner (Editor), Raffaella Zanuttini (Editor)
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2006
• EAN: 9781589010802
• ISBN: 978-1-58901-080-2
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series; Georgetown University Round Ta; Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series; Georgetown University Round Ta
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics