Parameters of Slavic Morphosyntax

Parameters of Slavic Morphosyntax
Author: Steven Franks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 426
Release: 1995-05-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0195358260

Focusing on issues of case theory and comparative grammar, this study treats selected problems in the syntax of the Slavic languages from the perspective of Government-Binding theory. Steven Franks seeks to develop parametric solutions to related constructions among the various Slavic languages. A model of case based loosely on Jakobson's feature system is adapted to a variety of comparative problems in Slavic, including across-the-board constructions, quantification, secondary predication, null subject phenomena, and voice. Solutions considered make use of recent approaches to phrase structure, including the VP-internal subject hypothesis and the DP hypothesis. The book will serve admirably as an introduction to GB theory for Slavic linguists as well as to the range of problems posed by Slavic for general syntacticians.

Parameters of Slavic Morphosyntax

Parameters of Slavic Morphosyntax
Author: Steven Franks
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 426
Release: 1995
Genre: Principles and parameters (Linguistics)
ISBN: 0195089715

Focusing on issues of case theory and comparative grammar, this study treats selected problems in the syntax of the Slavic languages from the perspective of Government-Binding theory. Steven Franks seeks to develop parametric solutions to related constructions among the various Slavic languages. A model of case based loosely on Jakobson's feature system is adapted to a variety of comparative problems in Slavic, including across-the-board constructions, quantification, secondary predication, null subject phenomena, and voice. Solutions considered make use of recent approaches to phrase structure, including the VP-internal subject hypothesis and the DP hypothesis. The book will serve admirably as an introduction to GB theory for Slavic linguists as well as to the range of problems posed by Slavic for general syntacticians.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax
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.

A Handbook of Slavic Clitics

A Handbook of Slavic Clitics
Author: Steven Franks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2000-03-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199729425

Clitics are grammatical elements that are treated as independent words in syntax but form a phonological unit with the word that precedes or follows it. This volume brings together the facts about clitics in the Slavic languages, where they have become a focal points of recent research. The authors draw relevant generalizations across the Slavic languages and highlight the importance of these phenomena for linguistic theory.

Studies in the Morpho-Syntax of Greek

Studies in the Morpho-Syntax of Greek
Author: Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2009-03-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443808253

The volume presents a collection of papers of recent generative work on Modern Greek morpho-syntax. The book is divided into three parts. Part I of the book deals with argument alternations, part II with clitics and part III with the syntax and semantics of free relatives. The book will be interesting for scholars working on Greek but also in theoretical linguistics, as it exemplifies how the study of Greek feeds the development of generative theory. The issues discussed in the book are currently highly relevant for the develop­ment of a satisfactory theory of comparative syntax as well as the interface between syntax and morphology and syntax and semantics. Thus the analyses put forth here will contribute to the elaboration of such a theory and to our understanding of cross-linguistic variation.

Parameters and Universals

Parameters and Universals
Author: Richard S. Kayne
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2000
Genre: Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN: 0195102355

This is a collection of previously published essays on comparative syntax by the distinguished linguist Richard Kayne. The papers cover issues of comparative syntax as they are applied to French, Italian, and other Romance languages and dialects, together forming a strongly cohesive set that will be valuable to both scholars and students.

The Syntax of Russian

The Syntax of Russian
Author: John F. Bailyn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2012
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0521885744

An essential guide to Russian syntax, which examines major syntactic structures and grammatical puzzles of the language.

Advances in the Syntax of DPs

Advances in the Syntax of DPs
Author: Anna Bondaruk
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2014-10-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027269696

The contributions in this volume are devoted to various aspects of the internal and external syntax of DPs in a wide variety of languages belonging to the Slavic, Turkic, Finno-Ugric, Semitic and Germanic language families. In particular, the papers address questions related to the internal and external cartography of various types of simplex and complex DPs: the position of DPs within larger structures, agreement in phi-features and/or case between DPs and their predicates, as well as between sub-elements of DPs, and/or the assignment of case to DPs in specific configurations. The first four chapters of the book focus primarily on the external syntax of DPs, and the remaining chapters deal with their internal syntax.