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Comparisons and contrasts /

Comparisons and Contrasts collects eleven of Richard Kayne's recent articles in theoretical syntax, with an emphasis on comparative syntax, which uses syntactic differences among languages to probe the properties of the human language faculty. Kayne attaches particular importance to uncovering...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kayne, Richard S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Colección:Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Some Preliminary Comparative Remarks on French and Italian Definite Articles
  • 2. Several, Few and Many
  • 3. A Note on the Syntax of Numerical Bases
  • 4. On Parameters and on Principles of Pronunciation
  • 5. A Short Note on where vs. place
  • 6. Expletives, Datives, and the Tension between Morphology and Syntax
  • 7. Some Silent First-Person Plurals
  • 8. A Note on Auxiliary Alternations and Silent Causation
  • 9. Antisymmetry and the Lexicon
  • 10. Why Isn't This a Complementizer?
  • 11. Toward an Analysis of French Hyper-Complex Inversion / with Jean-Yves Pollock
  • Bibliography
  • Index.