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The Scope, order, and distribution of English auxiliary verbs

edited by Frank Heny and Barry Richards

(Synthese language library, v. 20 . Linguistic categories : auxiliaries and related puzzles / edited by Frank Heny and Barry Richards ; vol. 2)

D. Reidel , Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1983

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Based on papers presented at the Fourth Groningen Round Table, held in July 1980 and organized by the Institite for General Linguistics of Groningen University

Includes bibliographies and index

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Description

Virtually all the papers in these volumes originated in presentations at the Fourth Groniogen Round Table, held in July 1980. That conference, organ ized by the Institute for General linguistics of Groniogen University was the fourth in an irregular series of meetings devoted to issues of topical interest to linguists. Its predecessor, the Third Round Table, was held in June 1976, and dealt with the semantics of natural language. A selection of the papers was published as Syntax and Semantics 10, Selections from the Third Groningen Round Table, ed. by F. Heny and H. Schnelle, Academic Press, 1979. This fourth meeting was more narrowly focussed. The original intention was to examine the hypothesis of Akmajian, Steele and Wasow in their paper 'The Category AUX in Universal Grammar', Linguistic Inquiry 10, 1-64. Ultimately the topic was broadened considerably to encompass not only the syntax, semantics and morphology of auxiliaries and related elements, but to tackle the problem (implicit in the original work of Akmajian, Steele and Wasow) of justifying the selection of categories* for the analysis of natural language. In the summer of 1979, a workshop and short, informal conference were held at the University of Salzburg, in preparation for the Round Table. These were organized in conjunction with the Summer Institute of the linguistiC Society of America. The cooperation of the LSA and of the University of Salzburg, and in particular of the Director of that Institute, Professor Gaberen Drachman,is hereby gratefully acknowledged.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Volume two.- A New Theory of English Auxiliaries.- Scope Ambiguities of Tense, Aspect and Negation.- Generalized Categorial Grammars and the English Auxiliary.- Auxiliary and Copula Be in a Functional Grammar of English.- Explaining Auxiliary Order.- Semantic Explanations for the Syntax of the English Modals.- The Auxiliary System in Sranan.

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  • NCID
    BA03871730
  • ISBN
    • 9027714797
  • LCCN
    83011050
  • Country Code
    ne
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston,Hingham, MA, U.S.A.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xi, 258 p.
  • Size
    24cm
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