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Negation and Clausal Structure

Raffaella Zanuttini

• Paperback | Engels
• Every human language has some syntactic means of distinguishing a negative from a non-negative sentence; in other words, every speaker's syntactic com... Lees meer

The Feature Structure of Functional Categories

Elabbas Benmamoun

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

Particles

Marcel Den Dikken

• Paperback | Engels
• Particles are words that do not change their form through inflection and do not fit easily into the established system of parts of speech. Examples in... Lees meer

The Syntax of Ellipsis

Jeroen Van Craenenbroeck

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

The Cartography of Chinese Syntax

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

Subject Inversion in Romance and the Theory of Universal Grammar

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

Comparative Syntax of the Balkan Languages

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

Parameters of Slavic Morphosyntax

Steven Franks

• Paperback | Engels
• Focusing on issues of case theory and comparative grammar, this study treats selected problems in the syntax of the Slavic languages from the perspect... Lees meer

Aspects of Split Ergativity

Jessica Coon

• Hardcover | Engels
• 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

• Hardcover | Engels, Portugees, Spaans
• 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

Adverbs and Functional Heads

Guglielmo Cinque

• Paperback | Engels
• 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

The Cartography of Chinese Syntax

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

Locality and Logophoricity

Isabelle Charnavel

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

The Architecture of Determiners

Thomas Leu

• Hardcover | Engels
• 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

Subjects, Expletives, and the Epp

Peter Svenonius

• Paperback | Engels
• 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
• 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

Infinitive Constructions with Specified Subjects

Guido Mensching

• Hardcover | Engels
• Overt subjects are usually considered as a property of finite clauses. However, most Romance languages permit specified subjects in a broad range of i... Lees meer

The Morphosyntax of Complement-Head Sequences

Enoch Oladé Aboh

• Paperback | Engels
• This is the first book on the syntax of the Niger-Conger language family, which includes most of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Aboh, who is a n... Lees meer

The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages

• Paperback | Engels
• 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 ... Lees meer

Comparative Grammar of Borgomanerese

Christina Tortora

• Paperback | Engels
• This book presents and analyzes various features of the morphosyntax of Borgomanerese, a Gallo-Italic dialect spoken in the town of Borgomanero, in th... Lees meer

The Architecture of Determiners

Thomas Leu

• Paperback | Engels
• 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

The Higher Functional Field

Cecilia Poletto

• Paperback | Engels
• This work investigates the syntax of the higher portion of the functional structure of the clause using comparative data from hundreds of Northern Ita... Lees meer

Variation in Datives

• Paperback | Engels
• Variation in Datives collects new research on the nature of syntactic micro-variation in datives. The papers in this volume examine different aspects ... Lees meer

Portuguese Syntax

• Paperback | Engels
• This volume is a collection of previously unpublished articles focusing on the following aspects of Portuguese syntax: clause structure, clitic placem... Lees meer