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

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Author(s): William D. Davies, Stanley Dubinsky
Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2001

Language: English
Pages: 320

Title Page......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 8
Forword......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
REMARKS ON GRAMMATICAL FUNCTIONS IN TRANSFORMATIONAL SYNTAX......Page 16
PHRASE SlRUCTURE AS A REPRESENTATION OF "PRIMITIVE" GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS......Page 36
GRAMMATICAL FUNCTIONS, THEMATIC ROLES, AND PHRASE STRUCTURE: THEIR UNDERLYING DISUNITY......Page 68
IS CASE ANOTHER NAME FOR GRAMMATICAL FUNCTION? EVIDENCE FROM OBJECT ASYMMETRIES......Page 92
SUBJECTS, OBJECTS, AND THE EPP......Page 118
DERIVED OBJECTS IN MALAGASY......Page 138
THE DISTRIBUTION OF SUBJECT PROPERTIES IN IRISH......Page 172
THE EPP IN SPANISH......Page 208
ON PREDICATION AND THE STATUS OF SUBJECTS IN NIUEAN......Page 240
FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF SUBJECT PROPERTIES......Page 262
REFERENCES......Page 296
AUTHOR INDEX......Page 312
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 316