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In this study Donna Jo Napoli takes a common-sense approach to the notions of argument and predicate. Discussions of predication within Government and Binding theory have stressed the configurational properties of the phrases involved, and Napoli argues that this has led to proposals for more and more elaborate syntactic structures that nevertheless fail to provide genuinely explanatory accounts. She presents a convincing case for viewing the notion of predicate as a semantic primitive which can

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Author

Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948-

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521368209

Category

language

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Linguistics

Updated

2026-03-25