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Review Of "Ins And Outs Of The Predication" By J. Van Der Auwera And L. Goossens, Donna Jo Napoli Sep 1989

Review Of "Ins And Outs Of The Predication" By J. Van Der Auwera And L. Goossens, Donna Jo Napoli

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Review Of "Les Prédicats Nominaux En Français: Les Phrases Simples À Verb Support" By J. Giry-Schneider, Donna Jo Napoli Jun 1989

Review Of "Les Prédicats Nominaux En Français: Les Phrases Simples À Verb Support" By J. Giry-Schneider, Donna Jo Napoli

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Review Of "Everyday Magic: Child Languages In Canadian Literature" By L. Ricou, Donna Jo Napoli Mar 1989

Review Of "Everyday Magic: Child Languages In Canadian Literature" By L. Ricou, Donna Jo Napoli

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Predication Theory: A Case Study For Indexing Theory, Donna Jo Napoli Jan 1989

Predication Theory: A Case Study For Indexing Theory, Donna Jo Napoli

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Napoli's study takes a refreshing look at the notions of argument and predicate. Recent discussions of predication with Government and Binding theory stress the configurational properties of the phrases involved, and Napoli argues that this has led to proposals for more and more elaborate syntactic structures that still fail to give genuinely explanatory accounts. She presents a convincing case for the idea of predicate as a semantic primitive that cannot be defined simply by looking at the lexicon or simply at semantic structure, and offers a theory of predication where the key to the subject-predicate relationship is theta role assignment. …


Review Of "Italian Syntax: A Government-Binding Approach" By L. Burzio, Donna Jo Napoli Mar 1988

Review Of "Italian Syntax: A Government-Binding Approach" By L. Burzio, Donna Jo Napoli

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Review Of "X-Bar Grammar: Attribution And Predication In Dutch" By F. C. Van Gestel, Donna Jo Napoli Dec 1987

Review Of "X-Bar Grammar: Attribution And Predication In Dutch" By F. C. Van Gestel, Donna Jo Napoli

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