Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1588116107 ISBN 13: 9781588116109

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1588116107
• ISBN 13: 9781588116109
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 445
• Editor: Carnie Andrew, Harley Heidi, Dooley Sheila Ann