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To paraphrase, of the making of syntactic categories there is no end. For any theory of syntax, questions arise about its classificatory scheme: what are the categories? What properties do they have? How do they relate to each other? Eleven essays address these questions by inquiring whether there is a clear distinction between lexical and functional categories, how syntactic categories relate to semantic categories, the relation between syntactic and morphological information, as well as other inquiries. Above all the essays highlight the centrality of questions about syntactic categories for a number of different theoretical frameworks. It discusses a broad range of questions about syntactic categories and presents a number of theoretical frameworks.
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SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS VOLUME 32
EDITORIAL BOARD
Series Editors BRIAN D. JOSEPH AND CARL POLLARD Department of Linguistics The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio
Editorial Advisory Board JUDITH AISSEN University of California, Santa Cruz
PAULINE JACOBSON Brown University
PETER CULICOVER The Ohio State University
MANFRED KRIFKA University of Texas
ELISABET ENGDAHL University of Gothenburg
WILLIAM A. LADUSAW University of California, Santa Cruz
JANET FODOR City University of New York
BARBARA H. PARTEE University of Massachusetts
ERHARD HINRICHS University of Tubingen
PAUL M. POSTAL Scarsdale, New York
A list of titles in this series appears at the end of this book.
SYNTAX and SEMANTICS VOLUME 32 The Nature and Function of Syntactic Categories Edited by
Robert D. Borsley Department of Linguistics University of Wales Bangor, Wales
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CONTENTS
Contributors
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Introduction ROBERT D. BORSLEY
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1. Some Background 2. The Chapters References
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Grammar without Functional Categories RICHARD HUDSON 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Introduction Functional Categories Complementizer Pronoun Valency and Its Irrelevance to Classification Determiner FWCs as Classes of Function Words FWCs as Closed Classes Grammar without FWCs References
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