Italian Syntax: A Government-Binding Approach (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory)
By L. Burzio.
Description
In the course of our everyday lives, we generally take our knowledge of language for granted. Occasionally, we may become aware of its great practical importance, but we rarely pay any attention to the formal properties that language has. Yet these properties are remarkably complex. So complex that the question immediately arises as to how we could know so much. The facts that will be considered in this book should serve well to illustrate this point. We will see for example that verbs like arrivare 'arrive' and others like telefonare 'telephone', which are superficially...
ISBN(s)
9027720150, 9789027720153
