Situations and Syntactic Structures: Rethinking Auxiliaries and Order in English

by Gillian Catriona Ramchand

A new theory of the syntax-semantics interface that relies on hierarchical orderings in language, with the English auxiliary system as its empirical ground.

Research in syntax has found that there is a hierarchical ordering of projections within the verb phrase across languages (although researchers differ with respect to how fine grained they assume the hierarchy to be). In Situations and Syntactic Structures, Gillian Ramchand explores...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262535033
• ISBN13: 9780262535038
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher