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Download full textTuggy, David – 1980
This paper presents a class of sentences that certain syntactic rules of English would be expected to produce, but that are not grammatical. The sentences all involve the raising of a sentential Noun Phrase (NP) and the subsequent application of some syntactic rule to that senential NP. A constraint, referred to as the Antigone Constraint, is…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Nouns
Tuggy, David – 1980
In Spanish, there is a very common type of sentence that has the following properties: (1) one of the arguments of the verb is a noun phrase that consists of an article and a noun; (2) there is also a dative pronoun dependent on the verb; and (3) the dative pronoun is understood as the possessor of the definite noun. It has been suggested that…
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure, Spanish
Tuggy, David – 1989
The verb stem "maka" ("give") in Nahuatl is unusual in its range of options with respect to transitivity. Like all transitive verb stems, it regularly occurs with an object and must do so, but it also appears in an unusually large number of constructions in which it has two objects. These constructions are examined within the…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Research
