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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Chapter 1: Andrew Carnie and Eithne Guilfoyle: Introduction Chapter 2: Randall Hendrick: Celtic Initials Chapter 3: Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley, and Elizabeth Pyatt: VSO Order as Raising Out of IP? Some Evidence from Old Irish Chapter 4: Eithne Guilfoyle: Tense and N-features in Irish Chapter 5: Edit Doron: VSO and Left-conjunct Agreement: Biblical Hebrew vs. Modern Hebrew Chapter 6: Diane Massam: VSO and VOS: Aspects of Niuean Word Order Chapter 7: Andrea Rackowski and Lisa Travis: V-initial Languages: X or XP Movement and Adverbial Placement Chapter 8: Felicia Lee: VP Remnant Movement and VSO in Quiavini Zapotec Chapter 9: Ray Freeze and Carol Georgopoulos: Locus Operandi Chapter 10: Judith Aissen: Prosodic Conditions on Anaphora and Cliticsin Jakaltek Chapter 11: Seth Minkoff: Animacy Hierarchies and Sentence Processing Chapter 12: Eloise Jelinek: Predicate Raising in Lummi, Straits Salish References Index
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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.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780195132236
Publisert
2000
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
233 mm
Bredde
164 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272

Biografisk notat

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.