Product details
ISBN
9780195132229
Published
2001
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Weight
522 gr
Height
231 mm
Width
152 mm
Thickness
23 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
272
Biographical note
Andrew Carnie is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. Eithne Guilfoyle is Head of Humanities at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology."The editors' introduction of the book presents a fairly detailed overview of nearly all the existing derivational approaches that have been proposed for verb-initial languages. This chapter is very valuable for those who want to get a thorough orientation on the subject. The book contributes to the linguistic community at large, as it shows a variety of verb-initial languages and different approaches to the problem. It also contributes to the research of
Universal Grammar as it tests and verifies different approaches to the derivation of verb-initial languages." --SIL Electronic Book Reviews
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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This volume contains 12 chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew.
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"The editors' introduction of the book presents a fairly detailed overview of nearly all the existing derivational approaches that have been proposed for verb-initial languages. This chapter is very valuable for those who want to get a thorough orientation on the subject. The book contributes to the linguistic community at large, as it shows a variety of verb-initial languages and different approaches to the problem. It also contributes to the research of
Universal Grammar as it tests and verifies different approaches to the derivation of verb-initial languages." --SIL Electronic Book Reviews
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Selling point: The first book to take a cross-linguistic comparative approach to verb initial syntax.
Selling point: The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages.
Andrew Carnie is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona.
Eithne Guilfoyle is Head of Humanities at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology.
Selling point: The first book to take a cross-linguistic comparative approach to verb initial syntax.
Selling point: The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages.
Product details
ISBN
9780195132229
Published
2001
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Weight
522 gr
Height
231 mm
Width
152 mm
Thickness
23 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
272