Syntax and Human Experience

by Nicolas Ruwet, John A. Goldsmith

Overview

"[Ruwet] raises fundamental questions about the place of grammar in the study of language and provides several studies which suggest the possibility that some core data are outside the realm of grammatical explanation. A very remarkable book, in which the breadth of Ruwet's reflection is both challenging and deeply rewarding."—Denis Bouchard, University of Quebec, Montreal

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226732220
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	09/24/1991
Series:	Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
Edition description:	1
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

John Goldsmith is Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at the University of Chicago. 

Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Note on Notation
1. Je veux partir / *Je veux que je parte: On the Distribution of Finite Complements and Infinitival Complements in French
2. Raising and Control Revisited
3. On Weather Expressions
4. Weather Verbs and the Unaccusativity Hypothesis
5. On the Use and Abuse of Idioms in Syntactic Argumentation
Notes
References
Index