The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages (Hardcover)

Andrew Carnie

ISBN 10: 019513222X / ISBN 13: 9780195132229

Edité par Oxford University Press Inc, New York, 2001

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Hardcover. 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 across-linguistic 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. The first book to take a cross-linguistic 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780195132229

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Titre : The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages (...

Éditeur : Oxford University Press Inc, New York

Date d'édition : 2001

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : new

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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.

À propos de l?auteur:

Andrew Carnie is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona.

Eithne Guilfoyle is Head of Humanities at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology.