Objects and Other Subjects: Grammatical Functions, Functional Categories and Configurationality

Davies, William D.; Dubinsky, Stanley

The papers in this volume examine the current role of grammatical functions in transformational syntax in two ways: (i) through largely theoretical considerations of their status, and (ii) through detailed analyses for a wide variety of languages. Taken together the chapters in this volume present a comprehensive view of how transformational syntax characterizes the elusive but often useful notions of subject and object, examining how subject and object properties are distributed among various functional projections, converging sometimes in particular languages.

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2001-10-31

Format: Paperback

ISBN-10: 9781402000652

ISBN-13: 9781402000652

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-0991-1

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 307