Subject and Object in Modern English.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 Deep and Surface Sentence Structure -- 1.2 Categories and Relations -- 1.3 Partial and Complete Grammars -- 1.4 Scope of the Thesis -- CHAPTER II. THE SUBJECT RELATION -- 2.0 Introduction -- 2.1 Surface Subject Defined by Number Agreement -- 2.2 Surface Subject Defined by Substitution -- 2.3 Underlying Subject and Transitive-Intransitive Verb Pairs -- 2.30 Subjectless sentences -- 2.31 "The car drives easily -- 2.32 Causatives -- 2.33 Animacy of underlying subjects -- 2.34 Exceptions to 2.33 -- 2.4 Consequences of Subjectless Sentences -- CHAPTER III. VERB AND OBJECT -- 3.0 The Determination of Underlying Structure -- 3.01 Reflexivization -- 3.02 Co-occurrence relations -- 3.1 Direct Object -- 3.2 Indirect Object -- 3.21 - 3.24 Underlying structure of indirect objects -- 3.25 - 3.27 Related structures -- 3.3 Locative and Directional Phrases -- 3.31 Their place in the verb phrase -- 3.32 Phrase structural versus transformational derivation -- 3.33 The relation between locative and directional phrases -- 3.4 Derived Direct Object -- 3.41 Indirect objects -- 3.42 Objectivized locative phrases -- 3.43 Of-phrases -- 3.5 Concluding Remarks -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Subject and Object in Modern English, first published in 1979, deals with subjects in the English language (one of the two main constituents of a clause), first comparing two possible notions of derived subject and then re-examining some derived subjects which had been assumed to be underlying subjects as well. This title also concerns itself with the basic verb phrase relations; not only with direct and indirect objects, but locative and directional phrases, with-phrases, and of-phrases considered. This book will be of interest to students of English language and linguistics.

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