This book provides a comprehensive cross-linguistic account of 98 typologically diverse minority languages in Southern China. A number of important parameters are analyzed based on rich case studies ranging from the Tibeto-Burman languages, Kam-Ta...More info...
In the Iranic-Semitic-Turkic contact area, where many languages are described as verb-final, Targets (Goals, Recipients, etc.) tend to appear in the immediate postverbal position, a pattern violating the alleged basic word order. Inves...More info...
The first attempt at a restrictive theory of the linear order of sentences and phrases of the worlds languages, by one of the founders of cartographic syntax.Linearization, or the typical sequence of words in a sentence, varies tremen...More info...
Series: Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature
(Pub. Date: 14-Dec-2022, Hardback, Publisher: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631879528)
Word order and syntactic structure are intertwined. Cross-linguistically, focus, clefts and topic can be located in sentence left-periphery or elsewhere. Syntactic derivations may be freed from lexical features. Reason clauses are accountable with...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Aug-2022, Hardback, Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783110790214)
In the Iranic-Semitic-Turkic contact area, where many languages are described as verb-final, Targets (Goals, Recipients, etc.) tend to appear in the immediate postverbal position, a pattern violating the alleged basic word order. Inves...More info...
One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. Syntactic theory has long been concerned with properties of movement, including locality restrictions....More info...
One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. Syntactic theory has long been concerned with properties of movement, including locality restrictions....More info...
(Pub. Date: 25-Mar-2020, Hardback, Publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198844303)
This volume provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property, which has been a central topic in formal syntax for decades. While Verb Second has traditionally been considered a feature primarily of the Ge...More info...
An investigation of the syntax and semantics of wh-questions through the lens of intervention effects, offering a new proposal on overt and covert wh-movement.In this book, Hadas Kotek investigates the syntax and semantics of...More info...
(Pub. Date: 19-Feb-2019, Hardback, Publisher: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262039291)
An investigation of the syntax and semantics of wh-questions through the lens of intervention effects, offering a new proposal on overt and covert wh-movement.In this book, Hadas Kotek investigates the syntax and semantics of wh-...More info...
Jutta Hartmann, Marion Jδger, Andreas Kehl, Andreas Konietzko, Susanne Winkler
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
(Pub. Date: 22-Oct-2018, Hardback, Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9781501512148)
Displacement is a fundamental property of human language, and the restrictions on displacement have been a central concern in generative grammar ever since Ross (1967) ground-breaking observations of island constraints. While island phenomena have b...More info...
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
(Pub. Date: 21-Jun-2018, Hardback, Publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198747307)
This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax. Word order is at the core of natural language grammatical systems, linking syntax with prosody and with semantics and pragmatics. The chapters in this volume...More info...
The case studies in this volume offer new insights into word order change. As is now becoming increasingly clear, word order variation rarely attracts social values in the way that phonological variants do. Instead, speakers tend to attach discourse...More info...
Michelle Sheehan, Theresa Biberauer, Ian Roberts, Anders Holmberg, David Pesetsky
Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
(Pub. Date: 27-Oct-2017, Hardback, Publisher: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262036696)
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This book presents evidence for a universal word order constraint, the Final-over-Final Condition (FOFC), and discusses the theoretical implications of this phenomenon. FOFC is a syntactic condition that disallows structures where a head-initial p...More info...
This book presents evidence for a universal word order constraint, the Final-over-Final Condition (FOFC), and discusses the theoretical implications of this phenomenon. FOFC is a syntactic condition that disallows structures where a head-initial p...More info...
This book examines the frequencies of the six possible basic word (or constituent) orders (SOV, SVO, VSO, VOS, OSV, OVS) provides a typologically grounded explanation for those frequencies in terms of three independent, functional principles of li...More info...
This original account of vowel patterns in language brings a wealth of cross-linguistic material to the study of vowel systems and offers new theoretical insights. Descriptions and analyses are provided for vowel patterns in over 25 languages from ar...More info...
In this new book, well-known linguist Guglielmo Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. The articles gathered in the first part of the present volume deal with word...More info...
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Brings together studies of final particles in various languages of the world, offering a variety of methological approaches to this still relatively underresearched class of elements. This book offers an overview of the different types of final part...More info...
