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The Syntactic Basis of Lexical Structure Vol. 2

By Joseph E. Emonds

The second volume of this set contains articles published between 1987-1997 and two earlier articles on diachronic linguistics, one in syntax and one in phonology. The essays are organized around two central themes. The primary theme is that particular grammars consist entirely of lexical entries for closed classes of "purely grammatical elements", whose most interesting properties emerge only within a framework that sharply distinguishes their derivationally late lexical insertion from the early or deep lexical insertion of open class items. A secondary theme is the subcategorization frames are the only contextual information in lexical entries of both open and closed class items. Individual articles develop these general theoretical hypotheses by focusing on empirical properties of particular constructions (dative movement, nominalizations, bound pronounds, auxilliaries, etc.), using principally English data.

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