Thematic Structure in Syntax (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs)
By Edwin Williams.
Description
This important monograph summarizes, rethinks, and extends a decade of the author's work on therole assignments--the ways in which the roles implied by verbs of a given type play out in terms of position and other syntactic functions. The study of theta roles and the locality of theta-role assignment leads into many interesting areas of linguistic theory, such as scope, the ECP, X-bar theory, binding theory, and the weak crossover condition; Williams's reconstruction thus offers a systematic integration of a remarkably wide range of syntactic phenomena. Williams starts by outlinin...
ISBN(s)
0262731061, 9780262731065
