We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
The semantics, syntax, and morphology of Transparent Free Relatives revisited; a comparison of two approaches.
- Authors
Grosu, Alex
- Abstract
This article proposes to go beyond the earlier literature on Transparent Free Relatives (TFRs) by pursuing three interrelated goals: (i) To provide a sharper descriptive and analytical characterization of the semantic and pragmatic distinctions between TFRs on the one hand and Free Relatives (FRs) with a comparable internal configurational structure on the other. (ii) To provide for a number of representative sub-kinds of TFRs a compositional semantics substantially more detailed and precise than has previously been offered (in particular, in Grosu 2003, section 6). (iii) To carry out a comprehensive comparison of two views of the configurational structure of TFRs, by examining the extent to which each of them can deal with the syntactic, morphological, semantic and pragmatic properties of TFRs.
- Subjects
SEMANTICS; MORPHOLOGY (Grammar); SYNTAX (Grammar); PRAGMATICS; JAPANESE language
- Publication
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2016, Vol 34, Issue 4, p1245
- ISSN
0167-806X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11049-016-9333-0