The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

Av Andrew Carnie, Eithne Guilfoyle, University of Arizona) Carnie, Andrew (Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Calgary) Guilfoyle, Eithne (Head of Humanities, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design, and Technology; and Adjunct Associate Professor, Head of Humanities, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design, and Technology; and Adjunct Associate Professor

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This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, Biblical Hebrew, Jakaltek, Mam, Lummi (Straits Salish), Niuean, Malagasy, Palauan, K'echi', and Zapotec, from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including Minimalism, information structure, and sentence processing. The first book to take a crosslinguistic comparative approach to verb initial syntax, this volume provides new data to some old problems and debates and explores some innovative approaches to the derivation of verb initial order.

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Utgivningsdatum2001-01-18
Mått152 x 231 x 22 mm
Vikt522 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
Antal sidor272
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780195132229

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"The editors' introduction of the book presents a fairly detailed overview of nearly all the existing derivational approaches that have been proposed for verb-initial languages. This chapter is very valuable for those who want to get a thorough orientation on the subject. The book contributes to the linguistic community at large, as it shows a variety of verb-initial languages and different approaches to the problem. It also contributes to the research ofUniversal Grammar as it tests and verifies different approaches to the derivation of verb-initial languages." --SIL Electronic Book Reviews