Aspect and Predication

The Semantics of Argument Structure
ISBN13: 9780198236511ISBN10: 0198236514 Hardback, 264 pages
Apr 1997,  In Stock

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This book investigates the systematic correspondences between syntactic structure and semantic interpretation in the domain of predicate-argument relationships. Taking Scottish Gaelic as its empirical base, the book provides a detailed working out of a semantic system of argument classification which moves away from lexically-driven thematic roles in the traditional sense and towards a more constrained, syntactically motivated, set of primitives.

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264 pages; ISBN13: 978-0-19-823651-1ISBN10: 0-19-823651-4

About the Author(s)

Gillian Catriona Ramchand, Lecturer in General Linguistics, Oxford University

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