By Mário Alberto Perini
ISBN-10: 3319209841
ISBN-13: 9783319209845
The elaboration of linguistic theories will depend on the lifestyles of enough descriptions of specific languages; in a different way theories could be poorly grounded on empirical information. This ebook begins from theoretical issues of huge attractiveness between linguists and is going directly to current a descriptive metalanguage, in a position to exhibit the evidence of verb valency, which represent one of many center components in linguistic description. many of the information come from an in depth survey below means of the valency of Portuguese verbs; however the current work’s relevance is going way past that, and features a notion acceptable to different eu languages, illustrated by means of the wealth of English examples integrated within the exposition. one of the issues mentioned are the syntactic portion of structures (following right here an offer lately released in Culicover and Jackendoff’s Simpler Syntax); delimitation and definition of semantic roles; the position of linking ideas and their relation to prototypes; and the relationship among linguistic expressions and cognitive devices corresponding to frames and schemata. the result's a notational approach versatile and strong sufficient to explain all elements of verb valency.
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