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Subjects in English : From Valency Grammar to a Constructionist Treatment of Non-Canonical Subjects / Peter Uhrig.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 321Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (XX, 349 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110587258
  • 9783110587289
  • 9783110589801
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 400 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations, symbols and frequently used labels -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theory -- 3. Methodological Considerations -- 4. Clausal Subjects in active clauses -- 5. Analysis of subjects in passive clauses -- 6. Analysis of subjects in copular clauses -- 7. Extraposition -- 8. Existentials -- 9. Conclusions and perspectives for syntactic models -- References -- Index -- Appendices
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.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations, symbols and frequently used labels -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theory -- 3. Methodological Considerations -- 4. Clausal Subjects in active clauses -- 5. Analysis of subjects in passive clauses -- 6. Analysis of subjects in copular clauses -- 7. Extraposition -- 8. Existentials -- 9. Conclusions and perspectives for syntactic models -- References -- Index -- Appendices

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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