The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages Hardback
Edited by Andrew (Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University o Carnie, Eithne (Head of Humanities, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design, and Technology; and A Guilfoyle
Part of the Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax series
Hardback
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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 crosslinguistic 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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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages, numerous line figures
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:18/01/2001
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- ISBN:9780195132229
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages, numerous line figures
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:18/01/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195132229
