Thematic Relations provides information pertinent to thematic relations, which focus both on what sematic roles are expressible in the grammar and how these rol
This book presents a proposal to better define thematic relations by exploring the relation between language and cognition. It analyzes the relation between gra
This book is concerned with the mapping of thematic roles, such as agent and patient, onto syntactic cases, such as nominative or ergative, or onto structural r
This text is designed for undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as
The book guides students through the basic concepts involved in syntactic analysis and goes on to prepare them for further work in any syntactic theory, using e