书目名称 | Purpose Clauses | 副标题 | Syntax, Thematics, a | 编辑 | Charles Jones | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | 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 fonn of the analyis of purpose clauses in GB dates roughly from Chomsky (1977). where several kinds of constructions akin to purpose clauses are identified. Within GB. this analysis is so widely accepted that it deserves to be considered the standard theory. This book, then. is about a few syntactically peripheral ell~ments that have enjoyed a relatively long-lived. virtually universally accepted. theoretical treatment What is perhaps an obvious question arises in this context. Why write a GB book about purpose clauses? This book. I hope, will supply an interesting answer. Simply put. purpo | 出版日期 | Book 1991 | 关键词 | Index; Negation; Syntax; adjective; complements; grammar; object; passive; preposition; prepositional phrase; | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3478-1 | isbn_softcover | 978-94-010-5537-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-011-3478-1Series ISSN 0924-4662 Series E-ISSN 2215-034X | issn_series | 0924-4662 | copyright | Kluwer Academic Publishers 1991 |
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