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This book contains 14 articles by Teun Hoekstra (1953-1998) on core
issues in syntactic theory. Some articles focus on the structure of
DP, others on the structure of the sentence as a whole, while
others still deal explicitly with the parallels between the two.
The papers are distributed over four sections: "Argument
structure", "T-chains", "The morpho-syntax of verbal and nominal
projections" and "Small clauses". More than half of the articles in
this book are published here for the first time or appear for the
first time in English. Hoekstra's work is characterized by a
fundamental interest in the central questions of syntactic theory,
most notably the relation between argument structure and X-bar
structure. This concentrated interest led to a deep understanding
of the notion of transitivity, with respect to both the status of
the external argument and that of the internal argument, where
"status" refers to both the content and the licensing. In this
collection of papers, Hoekstra reports on his insights in these
matters. As far as content and licensing of the external argument
is concerned, this collection contains papers on the relation
between passives and their active counterparts, the parallels
between possessives and transitives and the differences and
similarities between past participles and infinitives. As to the
internal argument, we find papers addressing sentential
complementation, verbal affixation and resultatives. And there is a
whole section on tense, and its role in keeping the sentence
together. One of the papers in this collection is Hoekstra's
classic, but hitherto unpublished "Small clauses everywhere" (more
than 70 pages), which summarizes Hoekstra's views on such issues as
resultatives, particle verbs and double object constructions.
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