John Bowers

List of John Benjamins publications in which John Bowers is involved.

Articles

Bowers, John 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

Bowers, John 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