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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Semantic Basis for Subject/object Asymmetries in English
Abstract
dc:descriptionHowever, there are sentences which show an asymmetry between the temporal location of the subject in the eventuality and other constituents in the sentence, such as Aunt May resembled Sally, where Aunt May is dead and Sally is alive. The state of resembling cannot be contained wholly in the past and exclude the present. In such a situation, neither Sally nor the resembling is located by the tense but only Aunt May. The simplest hypothesis that captures these facts is to stipulate that the tense combines only with the subject and not anything else in the sentence.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Linguistics
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Honegger, Mark Andrew
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Morgan, Jerry
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI9812621
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/82668