Variation in P: Comparative Approaches to Adpositional Phrases

Variation in P is an essential follow-up to the seminal proposals of the generative tradition regarding prepositional syntax. Recent research shows that prepositional phrases have a complex internal structure, and that the grammatical encoding of locative meaning has its own place in universal grammar. The papers collected in the first part of this volume not only test these proposals against new comparative data, but also shed light on the relation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190931248
• ISBN13: 9780190931247
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"