Welsh Syntax. A Government-Binding Approach. (Croom Helm Linguistics Series)

Sadler, Louisa.

ISBN 10: 0709944837 / ISBN 13: 9780709944836

Published by Croom Helm, London, 1988

About this Item

288pp, indexes, bibliography, notes, few diagrams. Or black cloth in jacket. Lightest of edge wear to jacket. Proposes an analysis of Welsh syntax within the theory of Government and Binding. The main focus is the theory of empty elements and the role of agreement phenomenon in relation to empty categories. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Welsh Syntax. A Government-Binding Approach. (Croom Helm Linguistics Series)
• Publisher: Croom Helm, London
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0709944837
• ISBN 13: 9780709944836
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Language, Dictionaries, Trivia, Law

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Synopsis

This book, first published in 1988, proposes an analysis of Welsh syntax within the theory of Government and Binding (GB). The main focus of the study is the theory of empty elements and the role of agreement phenomena in relation to empty categories.

The study of the Celtic family of languages has emerged as an increasingly fruitful area of research both inside and outside GB theory. Written within the GB framework, this book provides a substantial description of some areas of Welsh syntax. Successive chapters deal with basic word order in main and embedded clauses, the null subject constructions, cliticisation and agreement, relative clauses, topicalisation and wh-questions, and passivisation. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.