Subject Inversion in Romance and the Theory of Universal Grammar

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• The Romance Languages document remarkable variations in subject word order in different constructions, and have various restrictions in their occurren... Lees meer

Particles

Marcel Den Dikken

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• The author investigates the distribution and placement of verbal particles, which are words that do not change their form through inflection and do no... Lees meer

The Cartography of Chinese Syntax

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• This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of cartography. Car... Lees meer

The Feature Structure of Functional Categories

Elabbas Benmamoun

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• Focusing on the relation between functional categories and lexical and phrasal categories in Arabic dialects, Benmamoun proposes that universally func... Lees meer

The Syntax of Ellipsis

Craenenbroeck

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• The Syntax of Ellipsis investigates a number of elliptical constructions found in Dutch dialects within the framework of the Minimalist Program. Using... Lees meer

Negation and Clausal Structure

Raffaella Zanuttini

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• Every language has a syntactic means of distinguishing a negative from a non-negative sentence. Zanutti aims to show the range of variation in this ab... Lees meer

Parameters of Slavic Morphosyntax

Steven Franks

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• This is the first linguistic study written within the Principles and Parameters framework to deal with the Slavic languages. Franks develops parametri... Lees meer

Smuggling in Syntax

Belletti

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• One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. Syntac... Lees meer

Comparative Syntax of the Balkan Languages

Angelike Ralle

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• This collection of seven papers studies important aspects of the syntax of Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, and Rumanian from a comparative perspective bas... Lees meer

Scrambling, Remnant Movement, and Restructuring in West Germanic

Roland Hinterholzl

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• In this book, Hinterhölzl provides a comprehensive study of three salient phenomena of West Germaic, namely scrambling, remnant movement and restructu... Lees meer

Syntax of Ellipsis

Jeroen Van Craenenbroeck

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• The Syntax of Ellipsis investigates a number of elliptical constructions found in Dutch dialects within the framework of the Minimalist Program. Using... Lees meer

Functional Structure from Top to Toe

Peter Svenonius

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• This volume consists of nine original chapters on central issues in theoretical syntax, all written by distinguished authors who have made major contr... Lees meer

Aspects of Split Ergativity

Jessica Coon

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• In languages with aspect-based split ergativity, one portion of the grammar follows an ergative pattern, while another shows a "split." In this book, ... Lees meer

The Morphosyntax of Portuguese and Spanish in Latin America

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• Recent trends in syntax and morphology have shown the great importance of doing research on variation in closely related languages. This book centers ... Lees meer

Clause Structure and Word Order in Hebrew and Arabic

Ur Shlonsky

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• Shlonsky uses Chomsky's Government and Binding Approach to examine clausal architecture and verb movement in Hebrew and several varieties of Arabic. H... Lees meer

Adverbs and Functional Heads

Guglielmo Cinque

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• One of the world's leading syntacticians presents evidence for locating Adverb Phrases in the specifiers of distinct functional projections within a n... Lees meer

Locality

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• Locality is a key concept not only in linguistic theorizing, but in explaining pattern of acquisition and patterns of recovery in garden path sentence... Lees meer

Parameters of Predicate Fronting

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• Many of the world's languages permit or require clause-initial positioning of the primary predicate, potentially alongside some or all of its dependen... Lees meer

The Grammar of Q

Seth Cable

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• The Grammar of Q puts forth a novel syntactic and semantic analysis of wh-questions, one that is based upon in-depth study of the Tlingit language, an... Lees meer

Cartography of Chinese Syntax

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of cartography. Car... Lees meer

The Architecture of Determiners

Thomas Leu

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• Work in morphology is typically concerned with productive word formation and regular inflection, in any event with open class categories such as verbs... Lees meer

Locality and Logophoricity

Isabelle Charnavel

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• Locality and Logophoricity investigates what the distribution of pronominal expressions in various languages can tell us about the structure of the hu... Lees meer

Subjects, Expletives, and the Epp

Peter Svenonius

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• This collection of previously unpublished articles examines Noam Chomsky's Extended Projection Principle and its relationship to subjects and expletiv... Lees meer

XP-Adjunction in Universal Grammar

Ayesha Kidwai

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• One of the most hotly debated phenomena in natural language is that of leftward argument scrambling. This book investigates the properties of Hindi-Ur... Lees meer