ABSTRACT
This title, first published in 1988, is an inquiry into the nature of predication in natural language. The study is based on the hypothesis that infinitives and gerunds are not clausal or propositional constructions and attempts to provide support for such a hypothesis, whilst also drawing from analysis of various anaphoric phenomena. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|4 pages
Theories of Properties and Natural Language Semantics
part II|1 pages
Locally Configurational Grammar
part III|3 pages
Distributional Properties of Predicative Expressions and the Semantics of Nominalization
part IV|3 pages
Control and Semantic Structure
part V|1 pages
Infinitives, Gerunds and Anaphora