Functional Categories and Parametric Variation (Hardcover, New)

This book explores the idea that functional categories are the `flesh and blood of grammar'. From within the context of the Principles and Parameters framework, Jamal Ouhalla develops the argument that much of what we understand by the terms grammar and grammatical variation involves functional categories in a crucial way. His main thesis is that most, if not all, of the information which determines the major grammatical processes and relations (movement, agreement, case, etc.) and consequently parametric (or crosslinguistic) variation is associated with functional categories. By identifying parameters with a limited set of lexical properties associated with a well-defined group of functional categories, the book offers a new and highly constrained version of the theory of Lexical Parametrization.

eBook available with sample pages: 020341201X

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 1991
First published:	1991
Authors:	Jamal Ouhalla
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	252
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-05641-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-05641-1
Barcode:	9780415056410

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