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Purpose Clauses - Syntax, Thematics, and Semantics of English Purpose Constructions (Hardcover, 1991 ed.)
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Purpose Clauses - Syntax, Thematics, and Semantics of English Purpose Constructions (Hardcover, 1991 ed.)
Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 47
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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. purpose clause:;, and
related constructions, have various properties that are not
accounted for in the standard theory. In this book I propose an
alternative analysis of purpose clauses, an analysis from which. I
think. more of their properties follow more naturally.
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