This book develops ideas of Minimalist syntax to derive functional categories from the partially-ordered features expressed by functional elements, thereby disp

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 ca

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Proposes a novel theory of parts of speech, bringing together the latest research and discoveries.

In every language there are descriptive lexical elements, such as evening and whisper, as well as grammatical elements, such as the and -ing. The distinction be