The Nature and Function of Syntactic Categories

by Robert D. Borsley

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0126135320
• ISBN13: 9780126135329
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.0" x 6.0"