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Author: John Bowers (Cornell University)
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
Imprint: MIT Press
Volume: 58
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9780262014311
ISBN 10: 0262014319
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 23 July 2010
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""Bowers's creative yet formally simple proposals turn received wisdom about the syntactic side of argument structure on its head -- literally. *Arguments as Relations* shows how a hierarchy for arguments that is the precise opposite of the standard view solves puzzle after puzzle in virtually every domain where semantics and grammatical relations interact."" David Pesetsky, MIT ""Arguments as Relations aims at nothing less than a complete typology of argument structure. It defends the view that there is a single, universal method for introducing arguments into a clause, and then systematically goes through all the ways in which that method gives the differing results evident cross-linguistically. All the familiar languages and grammatical function operations are brought under one simple theory."" Kyle Johnson, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bowers's creative yet formally simple proposals turn received wisdom about the syntactic side of argument structure on its head--literally. *Arguments as Relations* shows how a hierarchy for arguments that is the precise opposite of the standard view solves puzzle after puzzle in virtually every domain where semantics and grammatical relations interact. --David Pesetsky, MIT Arguments as Relations aims at nothing less than a complete typology of argument structure. It defends the view that there is a single, universal method for introducing arguments into a clause, and then systematically goes through all the ways in which that method gives the differing results evident cross-linguistically. All the familiar languages and grammatical function operations are brought under one simple theory. --Kyle Johnson, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bowers's creative yet formally simple proposals turn received wisdom about the syntactic side of argument structure on its head--literally. *Arguments as Relations* shows how a hierarchy for arguments that is the precise opposite of the standard view solves puzzle after puzzle in virtually every domain where semantics and grammatical relations interact.
Author Information
John Bowers is Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Linguistics Department at Cornell University.
