Comparative Syntax
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| Author | : Liliane M. V. Haegeman |
| Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Grammar, Comparative and general |
| ISBN | : |
Drawing upon recent theoretical developments and empirical discoveries, this book provides a coherent and comprehensive introdution to generative research in this field. Dr. Haegeman brings together ten chapters to illustrate the new appraoch to comparative grammar which has developed against the background of the 'principles and parameters' model. The contributors show how this framework guides empirical research by seeking to reveal the underlying grammatical basis for similarities and differences between languages and language groups. Throughout the text, attention is drawn to the ways in which empirical study feeds into theory construction, raising new questions for the overall conceptual framework and sometimes providing new solution
| Author | : Enoch Aboh |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 542 |
| Release | : 2017-09-11 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1501504037 |
This volume brings together a selection of articles illustrating the multifaceted nature of current research in generative syntax. The authors, including some of the leading figures in the field, present analyses of typologically diverse languages, with some studies drawing on dialectal, acquisitional and diachronic evidence. Set against this rich empirical background, the contributions address an equally wide range of theoretical issues.
| Author | : Guglielmo Cinque |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 990 |
| Release | : 2008-10-16 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0195136519 |
Its twenty-one commissioned chapters serve two functions: they provide a general and theoretical introduction to comparative syntax, its methodology, and its relation to other domains of linguistic inquiry; and they also provide a systematic selection of the best comparative work being done today on those language groups and families where substantial progress has been achieved." "This volume will be an essential resource for scholars and students in formal linguistics."--Jacket.
| Author | : Peter Ackema |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 435 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027255741 |
The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 23rd and 24th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh and the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels. The contributions provide new perspectives on several topics of current interest for syntactic theory on the basis of comparative data from a wide range of Germanic languages. Among the theoretical and empirical issues explored are various ellipsis phenomena, the internal structure of the DP, the syntax-morphology interface, the syntax-semantics interface, Binding Theory, various diachronic developments, and 'do-support'-type phenomena. This book is of interest to syntacticians with an interest in theoretical, comparative and/or diachronic work, as well as to morphologists and semanticists interested in the connections their fields have with syntax. It will also be of interest to graduate and advanced undergraduate students in linguistic disciplines.
| Author | : Naoki Fukui |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2006-04-18 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1134326661 |
1. Specifiers and projection -- 2. LF extraction of naze : some theoretical implications -- 3. Strong and weak barriers : remarks on the proper characterization of barriers -- 4. Parameters and optionality -- 5. A note on improper movement -- 6. The principles-and-parameters approach : a comparative syntax of English and Japanese -- 7. Symmetry in syntax : merge and demerge -- 8. Order in phrase structure and movement -- 9. An A-over-A perspective on locality -- 10. The uniqueness parameter -- 11. Nominal structure : an extension of the Symmetry Principle -- 12. Phrase structure -- 13. The Visibility Guideline for functional categories : verb-raising in Japanese and related issues.
| Author | : Mark C. Baker |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 581 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Grammar, Comparative and general |
| ISBN | : 0195093089 |
This book investigates in detail the grammar of polysynthetic languages--those with very complex verbal morphology. Baker argues that polysynthesis is more than an accidental collection of morphological processes; rather, it is a systematic way of representing predicate-argument relationships that is parallel to but distinct from the system used in languages like English. Having repercussions for many areas of syntax and related aspects of morphology and semantics, this argument results in a comprehensive picture of the grammar of polysynthetic languages. Baker draws on examples from Mohawk and certain languages of the American Southwest, Mesoamerica, Australia, and Siberia.
| Author | : Yutaka Sato |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2023-12-21 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0198896530 |
This book provides a detailed survey of Korean and Japanese syntax from a comparative perspective, based within a generative framework. Yukata Sato and Sungdai Cho demonstrate that while the two languages exhibit remarkably similar morphosyntactic features, they behave differently in specific types of construction, with the main differences observed in genitive marking, sentence negation, Negative Polarity Items, the formation of causatives, and passivization. The book also explores pragmatic and sociolinguistic issues in the two languages, and shows that they differ in the perception and realization of 'givenness' as a topic marker and in the influence of relationships of power and distance on the use of honorifics. The authors further offer additional context by exploring the typological relationship between Japanese and Korean and the surrounding languages such as Ainu, and the Chinese and Altaic languages, as well as providing socio-cultural and historical background.
| Author | : Luigi Rizzi |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 455 |
| Release | : 2003-09-02 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1134608268 |
In this collection of essays, the author addresses the central issues in syntax theory, comparative syntax and the theoretically conscious study of language acquisition. Key topics are explored, including the properties of null elements and the theory of parameters. Some of the essays presented here have been highly influential in their field, while others are published for the first time.
| Author | : Perugia Adriana Belletti Associate Professor of Linguistics Universita per Stanieri |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 1996-03-30 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0198024886 |
The essays collected in this volume, most previously unpublished, address a number of closely interconnected issues raised by the comparative syntax of functional heads within the Principles-and-Parameters approach. The general theory of head movement, the properties of derived structures created by incorporation, and the parameterization involved are the main theoretical foci. One major empirical area which is addressed concerns head movement in configurations involving certain kinds of operator-like elements, for example, the different manifestations of Verb Second phenomena in Wh and other constructions and the syntax of negative heads and specifiers. In addition, properties of functional heads and head movement in nominal and clausal structures and the causative construction are investigated.
| Author | : Andrew Carnie |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2000-06-29 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0198030290 |
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.
