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Comparative Grammar of Borgomanerese

Christina Tortora

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• 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

Locality and Logophoricity

Isabelle (Associate Professor of Linguistics, Associate Professo

• Hardcover | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• In many languages, reflexives like English herself exhibit a puzzling dual behavior: they must either obey structural constraints or perspective-relat... Lees meer

The Polysynthesis Parameter

Mark C Baker

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• This book investigates in detail the grammar of polysynthetic languages--those with very complex verbal morphology. Baker argues that polysynthesis is... Lees meer

Particles

Marcel Den Dikken

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• 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 Grammar of Q

Seth Cable

• Hardcover | 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

Checking Theory and Grammatical Functions in Universal Grammar

Hiroyuki Ura

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• Ura demonstrates that his theory of multiple feature-checking, an extension of Chomsky's Agr-less checking theory, gives a natural explanation for a w... Lees meer

Syntactic Heads and Word Formation

Marit Julien

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• Marit Julien investigates the relation between morphology and syntax, or more specifically, the relation between the form of inflected verbs and the p... Lees meer

The Syntactic Variation of Spanish Dialects

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of the dialects of Spanish. More precisely, it covers Spanish theoretical syntax ... Lees meer

Parameters and Universals

Richard S Kayne

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• This is a collection of previously published essays on comparative syntax by the distinguished linguist Richard Kayne. The papers cover issues of comp... Lees meer

The Feature Structure of Functional Categories

Elabbas Benmamoun

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

Functional Structure from Top to Toe

Peter Svenonius

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• 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

Discourse Configurational Languages

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• Comprising eleven studies on languages with designated structural topic and focus positions, this volume includes an introduction surveying the empiri... Lees meer

The Higher Functional Field

Cecilia Poletto

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• 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

The Linker in the Khoisan Languages

Chris (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, New Y

• Hardcover | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• The linker introduces ("links") a variety of expressions into the verb phrase, including locatives; the second object of a double object construction;... Lees meer

Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective

• Hardcover | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective seeks to fill a gap in the literature by examining Japanese in comparison with other Asian languages, inclu... Lees meer

Portuguese Syntax

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

Movement and Silence

Richard S Kayne

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• This volume collects important recent articles by Richard Kayne, one of the top formal linguists in the world. Although the articles range widely in t... Lees meer

Adverbs and Functional Heads

Guglielmo Cinque

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• 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 Syntax of Verb Initial Languages

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• 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

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

Parameters of Predicate Fronting

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• 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

Coordination

Janne Bondi (Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Lecturer, Depa

• Hardcover | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• Part of the "Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax" series, this volume is a study of co-ordination, i.e. structures with conjunctions such as "and", "... Lees meer

The Syntax of Anaphora

Kenneth J Safir, Ken Safir

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• In this work, Ken Safir develops a comprehensive theory on the role of anaphora in syntax. First, he contends that the complementary distribution of f... Lees meer

Anti-Contiguity

Jason Kandybowicz

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• A recent wave of research has explored the link between wh - syntax and prosody, breaking with the traditional generative conception of a unidirection... Lees meer