Syntax and Human Experience"[Ruwet] raises fundamental questions about the place of grammar in the study of language and provides several studies which suggest the possibility that some core data are outside the realm of grammatical explanation. A very remarkable book, in which the breadth of Ruwet's reflection is both challenging and deeply rewarding."—Denis Bouchard, University of Quebec, Montreal |
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Contents
Raising and Control Revisited | 56 |
On Weather Expressions | 82 |
Weather Verbs and the Unaccusativity | 143 |
On the Use and Abuse of Idioms in Syntactic | 171 |
Common terms and phrases
acceptable anaphoric argument avoir belle lurette bien Burzio C'est chap chapter Chomskian Thesis Chomsky clitic cognate objects constructions context contrast Control verbs coreferential D-structure d'en etre demain denotes direct object discussion embedded clause embedded subject English examples facts faire fait fall French grammar Gross hallebardes Higgins idiomatic idioms impersonal interpretation involving J'ai Jean John Goldsmith Kayne laisse laisser language leave linguists Marie matrix subject meaning metonymy monts et merveilles mourir neige notice noun Nunberg of-it partir passer passive Paul Pierre pleut pleuvoir pluie possible predicate problem qu'il question rain Raising verbs relation Relational Grammar remarquer rendre Roughly Ruwet s'est seems self-to-self semantic semble sembler sense sentences small clause snow sois solution structure suggests syntactic syntax thunder tion tomber tonne tout unacceptable unaccusative verbs unergative verbs veux vouloir want weather verbs Wh-movement
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Syntax and Human Experience Studies in Contemporary Linguistics |
| Author | Nicolas Ruwet |
| Editor | John A. Goldsmith |
| Translated by | John A. Goldsmith |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0226732223, 9780226732220 |
| Length | 334 pages |
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