What's with with
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2897146 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James D Mccawley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 271 |
| Publication date | 1983-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/413575 |
| OpenAlex | W2335621181 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
The absolute construction exemplified by with the bus drivers on strike consists of with plus a constituent that possesses all the characteristics typical of embedded S's, except for having to contain a verb: it serves as a domain for cyclic application of transformations, it serves as a scope for quantifiers and negatives, and its elements do not command elements of the main clause. An analysis of these constituents as underlying S's, subject to optional deletion of be (or of possessional have and its subject) explains why this construction allows adverbs as adjuncts to constituents that normally do not support adverbs. Peculiarities of the distribution of adverbs in the construction support the contention that the NP in with NP PP is an underlying subject of be in some cases, an underlying object of have in others
Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1984 - 2011 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |