The Syntax of Argument Structure

by Leonard H. Babby

Book Overview

Each verb in natural language is associated with a set of arguments, which are not systematically predictable from the verb's meaning and are realized syntactically as the projected sentence's subject, direct object, etc. Babby puts forward the theory that this set of arguments (the verb's 'argument structure') has a universal hierarchical composition which directly determines the sentence's case and grammatical relations. The structure is uniform...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521182336
• ISBN13: 9780521182331
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"