The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
ISBN 10: 0195132238 ISBN 13: 9780195132236
Published by Oxford University Press, 2000
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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.
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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.
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Title: The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages (Oxford...
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New