Research Catalog

Title

Thematic relations and relational grammar / Patrick Farrell.

Author

Farrell, Patrick, 1953-

Publication

New York : Garland Pub., 1994.

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Details

Description

xiv, 285 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Outstanding dissertations in linguistics

Uniform Title

Outstanding dissertations in linguistics

Subject

• Relational grammar
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Topic and comment

Genre/Form

Academic theses

Note

• A revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--1991.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-273) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. Goals and Issues. 1.1. The Proposal. 1.2. Some Motivation for the Proposal. 1.3. Related Issues. 1.4. Initial Theoretical Assumptions -- Ch. 2. Thematic Relations in Relational Networks. 2.2. Conceptual Structure and Thematic Relations. 2.3. The Inclusion of [theta]Rs in RNs. 2.4. The Need for Multistratal RNs -- Ch. 3. Alternative Initialization vs. Revaluation. 3.2. Locative 2s in Italian. 3.3. The Locative Alternation in English. 3.4. "Oblique" Subject Constructions -- Ch. 4. Toward a Constrained Theory of Revaluations. 4.2. Problem One: Putative Oblique-1 Advancements. 4.3. Problem Two: Oblique/2 Alternations -- Ch. 5. Concluding Remarks. 5.1. Retrospective Overview. 5.2. Remaining Questions and Further Prospects.

ISBN

0815316860 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^93041177^

OCLC

• 29256061
• SCSB-11506902

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library