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
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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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