John Bowers
List of John Benjamins publications for which John Bowers plays a role.
Articles
2012 Chapter 5. The metrical system of William Carlos Williams Of Grammar, Words, and Verses: In honor of Carlos Piera, Torrego, Esther (ed.), pp. 87–114 | Article
This paper attempts to explain the metrical practice and theorizing of the American poet William Carlos Williams. Observing that in many of his short poems, the total number of syllables is exactly, or nearly exactly, equal to the total number of positions in an abstract metrical representation… read more
2010 Argument structure and quantifier scope Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations: A cross-linguistic perspective, Duguine, Maia, Susana Huidobro and Nerea Madariaga (eds.), pp. 151–180 | Chapter
In this article, I argue for a theory in which all argument DP/PPs (as well as ‘quasi-arguments’ such as Source, Goal, Benefactive, Instrumental, etc.) are projected above the root in specifiers of ‘light verb’ categories. I also argue that the order in which the three basic argument categories… read more