The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
Title | The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Carnie Assistant Professor of Linguistics University of Arizona |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2000-05-31 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0195344014 |
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 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.
The Syntax of the Verb Initial Languages
Title | The Syntax of the Verb Initial Languages PDF eBook |
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Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
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Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, The. Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax.
Title | Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, The. Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax. PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Carnie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 9786610530670 |
This volume contains 12 chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew.
The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
Title | The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Carnie |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2000-06-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0198030290 |
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 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.
Verb First
Title | Verb First PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Carnie |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2005-02-17 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027294755 |
This collection of papers brings together the most recent crosslinguistic research on the syntax of verb-initial languages. Authors with a variety of theoretical perspectives pursue the questions of how verb-initial order is derived, and how these derivations play into the characteristic syntax of these languages. Major themes in the volume include the role of syntactic category in languages with verb-initial order; the different mechanisms of deriving V-initial order; and the universal correlates of the order. This book should be of interest to scholars who work on theoretical approaches to word order derivation, typologists, and those who work on the particular grammars of Celtic, Zapotec, Mixtec, Polynesian, Austronesian, Mayan, Salish, Aboriginal, and Nilotic languages.
Clause Structure and Word Order in Hebrew and Arabic
Title | Clause Structure and Word Order in Hebrew and Arabic PDF eBook |
Author | Ur Shlonsky |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Arabic language |
ISBN | 0195108663 |
Looking at the grammars of Hebrew and several varieties of Arabic, Shlonsky examines clausal architecture and verb movement and the role of agreement in natural language, using Chomsky's Government and Binding approach.
Clause Structure and Language Change
Title | Clause Structure and Language Change PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Battye |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 1995-01-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0195358791 |
The Principles-and-Parameters approach to linguistic theory has triggered an enormous amount of work in comparative syntax over the last decade or so. A natural consequence of the growth in synchronic comparative work has been a renewed interest in questions of diachronic syntax, and this collection testifies to that trend. These papers focus on questions of clause structure which have become a central theme of theoretical work since the pioneering work in the late 1980s by Chomsky, Pollock, and others. The languages studied by an international roster of contributors include all the major Romance and Germanic languages. This volume is of central importance for anyone working in theoretical, comparative, or historical syntax.