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Syntactic features

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

G. G. Corbett
G. G. Corbett
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University of Surrey
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The aim of this paper is to justify the use of syntactic features, to show how they relate to semantic features and how they operate in syntax and morphology. 1 Particular stress is laid on the elimination of redundant features. First we shall review the literature, to show why syntactic features should require justification. Then, as an illustration, we shall investigate the feature of animacy in Russian in all components of the grammar in which it has a rôle.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , March 1981 , pp. 55 - 76
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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