Subjects in English : from valency grammar to a constructionist treatment of non-canonical subjects /
"The purpose of the book is twofold. First it tries to give a descriptive account of subjects in English. The second aim is to elucidate the status of the subject both as a concept in grammatical theory and with regard to the question whether the subject is determined by item-specific arbitrary...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2018]
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| Serier: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
321. |
| Online adgang: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1874560 |
| Summary: | "The purpose of the book is twofold. First it tries to give a descriptive account of subjects in English. The second aim is to elucidate the status of the subject both as a concept in grammatical theory and with regard to the question whether the subject is determined by item-specific arbitrary formal restrictions in the same way as postverbal complements of the verb have been shown to be."--Page 4 of cover |
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| Emne beskrivelse: | Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2013) under the title: Aspects of English subjects - a valency-based analysis of item-specificity with a focus on clausal subjects. |
| Fysisk beskrivelse: | 1 online resource (xx, 349 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografi: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-343) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110589818 3110589818 9783110589801 9783110587289 3110587289 311058980X 9783110587258 3110587254 |
| ISSN: | 1861-4302 ; |