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Syntax of Dutch: Verbs and Verb Phrases consists of three volumes. Volume 1 opens with a general introduction to verbs, including a review of various verb classifications and discussions on inflection, tense, mood, modality and aspect. This is followed by a comprehensive discussion of complementation (argument structure and verb frame alternations). Volume 2 continues the discussion of complementation, but is more specifically focused on clausal complements: the reader will find detailed discussions of finite and infinitival argument clauses, complex verb constructions and verb clustering. Volume 3 concludes with a description of adverbial modification and the overall structure of clauses in relation to, e.g., word order (verb placement, wh-movement. extraposition phenomena, scrambling, etc.).

Dutch language --- Syntax. --- syntax --- verbs --- dutch

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Les grammaires du français recèlent tant de renseignements que l'on pourrait être tenté de croire que tout a été dit aujourd'hui des complexités de la langue. Or, fait étonnant révélé par trente années d'études générativistes, certaines constructions restent encore presque entièrement ignorées, voire absentes des grammaires actuelles. Constructions méconnues du français rassemble, pour la première fois, des faits de langage que les recherches en linguistique moderne ont permis de caractériser, de décrire et de découvrir. L'ouvrage, divisé en dix chapitres, présente de façon singulière dix de ces constructions du français, parmi lesquelles la négation de phrase, l'inversion du sujet et la syntaxe de " en ". Pour chaque construction présentée, les auteurs font état de ses propriétés, de son fonctionnement, des restrictions auxquelles elle est soumise et, le cas échéant, des liens qu'elle entretient avec d'autres constructions en apparence non reliées. Cet ouvrage est le parfait complément pour tout étudiant ou chercheur s'intéressant à la linguistique et à la traduction ou souhaitant parfaire sa compréhension de la langue et de la grammaire.

Generative grammar. --- French language --- Syntax.

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This book presents a new approach to studying the syntax of human language, one which emphasizes how we think about time. Tilsen argues that many current theories are unsatisfactory because those theories conceptualize syntactic patterns with spatially arranged structures of objects. These object-structures are atemporal and do not lend well to reasoning about time. The book develops an alternative conceptual model in which oscillatory systems of various types interact with each other through coupling forces, and in which the relative energies of those systems are organized in particular ways. Tilsen emphasizes that the two primary mechanisms of the approach – oscillators and energy levels – require alternative ways of thinking about time. Furthermore, his theory leads to a new way of thinking about grammaticality and the recursive nature of language.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Syntax. --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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In this study the syntactic properties of empty categories and dummy pronouns are investigated within the framework of Government-Binding theory. The assumption that clauses must have a subject is present in most, if not all, linguistic theories. In GB theory the requirement that clauses have a subject is stipulated as a consequence of the base rules or the Extended Projection Principle. In this book it is claimed that no such stipulation is necessary. The presence of a subject is exclusively determined by the theories of thematic roles and Case. This view is supported by the fact that the alleged dummy subjects Dutch, i.e. er and het, show a variety of properties, which can only be explained if they are not analyzed as dummy subjects. Further confirmation is derived from the fact that Dutch, subjectless sentences are found in precisely those circumstances in which neither -theory nor Case theory requires a subject to be present. Chapter 1 presents a theory of empty categories. This theory enables us to explain the distribution of gaps, and makes precise and correct predictions with respect to the occurrence of parasitic gaps. The non-dummy status of het, discussed in chapter 2, is supported by the fact that it can be the antecedent of PRO, reflexives, and parasitic gaps, and by an asymmetry in wh-movement from sentential complements. The analysis of het leads to a discussion of a variety of constructions, including constructions with raising, ergative, and psychological verbs. The adverbial pronoun er displays several distinct syntactic functions. In chapter 3 it is argued that none of these different functions justifies an analysis of er as a dummy subject. In chapter 4 some of the consequences of the theory introduced in the preceding chapters are investigated. These include a discussion of the status of the subject position in languages such as English, Italian, French, and Spanish, the structure of Old English, and the status of dummy pronouns in German and English.

Dutch language -- Syntax. --- Dutch language --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Syntax. --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax