Partitions and atoms of clause structure : subjects, agreement, case and clitics /

Sportiche, Dominique.,

Partitions and atoms of clause structure : subjects, agreement, case and clitics / Dominique Sportiche. - 1 online resource (vii, 430 pages) - Routledge leading linguists ; 2 . - Routledge leading linguists ; 2. .

A collection of the author's essays, most of which were previously published in various sources.

1. A theory of floating quantifiers and its corollaries for constituent structure -- 2. The position of subjects / with Hilda Koopman -- 3. Movement, agreement and case -- 4. Clitic constructions -- 5. Subject clitics in French and romance : complex inversion and clitic doubling -- 6. French predicate clitics and clause structure -- 7. Sketch of a reductionist approach to syntactic variation and dependencies -- 8. Appendix : theta theory and extraction / with Hilda Koopman.

9780203982372 9781134701254 9781134701292 9781134701308

10.4324/9780203982372 doi


Grammar, Comparative and general--Clauses.

P297 / .S68 1998

415 / S764