Author: Torrego, Esther
Title: The Dependencies of Objects
Description: Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, (1998). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiii,197 pp, Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, 34.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction & Proposal: Object Raising in Romance Languages; Syntactic Factors in the Minimalist Program; Inherent Case & Structural Case; The Subsequent Chapters; Case Marking & Object Raising: Classes of Verbs & Marked Accusatives: An Overview; Two Different Types of Marked Accusative; The Case Particle Used with Accusatives; The Agentivity Constraint; Marked Accusative & Object Asymmetries; The Syntactic Roots of Object Raising; Morphological Marking & Object Raising; The Semantic Factor; Case & the Language Split; Case Marking & Economy: Preliminaries in Causative Formation; Syntactic versus Semantic Explanation; Case Marking & Economy; Accusative, Its Types, & Its Licensing Conditions; Three-Place Predicates versus hacer; The Data; The Approach; Justifying the Approach; The Analysis; Case Alternations: Ditransitives; Subject-to- Subject Raising; The Feature of Clitics; Conclusion.

Keywords: Comparative Grammar, Complement, Semantics, Markedness, Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Romance Languages, Minimalist, Case Marking