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The Syntax of Yes and No - Hardcover

Holmberg, Anders

 
9780198701859: The Syntax of Yes and No

Synopsis

This book is a cross-linguistic study of the syntax of yes-no questions and their answers, drawing on data from a wide range of languages including English, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, Welsh, and Chinese. It illustrates how this seemingly trivial phenomenon can have the most wide-ranging consequences for theories of language.

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About the Author

Anders Holmberg received his PhD from Stockholm University in 1987 and is currently Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at Newcastle University, having previously held positions in Morocco, Sweden, and Norway. His main research interests are in the fields of comparative syntax and syntactic theory, with particular focus on the Scandinavian languages and Finnish. His publications include numerous articles in journals such as Lingua, Linguistic Inquiry, Theoretical Linguistics, and Studia Linguistica, and he is the co-editor, with Theresa Biberauer, Ian Roberts, and Michelle Sheehan, of Parametric Variation: Null Subjects in Minimalist Theory (CUP 2010).

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