The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages

Andrew Carnie (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 0195132238 / ISBN 13: 9780195132236

Published by Oxford University Press, 2000

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The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages | Andrew Carnie (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2000 | Oxford University Press | EAN 9780195132236 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195132238
• ISBN 13: 9780195132236
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 16D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 16 millimeters depth
• Weight: 440 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.