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Purpose Clauses
Judith K. Jones
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Hardback. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1260.
The purpose clause is a common fonn of adverbial modification in English. The bracketed phrases below are purpose clauses, and they look and sound unremarkable. We hear and see these things all the time. John came [to play with the children] [to play with] I brought John along Insofar as purpose clauses appear to be adverbial, they frequently occupy a relatively low place on the scale of important things for syntactic theory to address itself to. In this book I assume the theoretical framework that has come to be known as 'Government-Binding' theory (GB), initiated in Chomsky (1981). The general ... Read more
The purpose clause is a common fonn of adverbial modification in English. The bracketed phrases below are purpose clauses, and they look and sound unremarkable. We hear and see these things all the time. John came [to play with the children] [to play with] I brought John along Insofar as purpose clauses appear to be adverbial, they frequently occupy a relatively low place on the scale of important things for syntactic theory to address itself to. In this book I assume the theoretical framework that has come to be known as 'Government-Binding' theory (GB), initiated in Chomsky (1981). The general ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Number of Pages
263
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792314004
SKU
V9780792314004
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