On the functional vs. lexical nature of restructuring heads: evidence for a fine-grained classification of restructuring modals

This paper examines in detail the thematic and syntactic properties of a set of (non-)restructuringstructures in Germanic, Romance and Basque. Based on the comparison of these structures, I propose a finegrainedclassification of (non-)restructuring constructions that include Functional Restructuring...

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Main Author: Irene Balza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2012-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/on_the_functional_vs._lexical_nature_of_restructuring_heads_evidence_for_a_fine-grained_classification_of_restructuring_modals