Locality (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199945284 ISBN 13: 9780199945283

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Locality offers a range of new perspectives on an important aspect of syntactic movement. The papers collected here explore locality in two ways: the first section approaches locality in terms of pure syntax; the second approaches it in terms of psycholinguistics.

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About the Author

Enoch Oladé Aboh is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam, where he holds a chair entitled: The Learnability of Human Languages. His research interests include issues of learnability in human language with a special focus on theoretical syntax; comparative syntax; discourse-syntax interface; and language creation and language change.

Maria Teresa Guasti is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Her research spans theoretical linguistics, language acquisition, and developmental language impairment. She is Associate Investigator at the CCD, Maquarie University, and Visiting Professor at the International Centre for Child Health, Beijing.

Ian Roberts is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. He has held previous positions at Universität Stuttgart, the University of Wales, and Université de Genève. His research interests include comparative and diachronic syntax and syntactic theory. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the Academia Europaea.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199945284
• ISBN 13: 9780199945283
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Aboh Enoch Oladé, Guasti Maria Teresa, Roberts Ian