Verb First : On the syntax of verb-initial languages PDF
Edited by Carnie Andrew Carnie, Harley Heidi Harley, Dooley Sheila Ann Dooley
Part of the Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today series
Description
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.
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- Pages:445 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:17/02/2005
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- ISBN:9789027294753
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:445 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:17/02/2005
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- ISBN:9789027294753
