Formal approaches to function in grammar : in honor of Eloise Jelinek /
The contributions making up this volume in honor of Eloise Jelinek are written from a formalist perspective that deals with stereotypically functionalist questions about language. Jelinek's pioneering work in formalist syntax has shown that autonomous syntax need not exist in a vacuum. Her work...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2003.
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Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 62. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Formal Approaches to Function in Grammar
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC page
- Picture
- Table of contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Notes
- Part I: The Pronominal Argument Hypothesis
- On the significance of Eloise Jelinek's Pronominal Argument Hypothesis
- Concluding remarks
- Notes
- Categories and pronominal arguments
- Doubling by Agreement in Slave (Northern Athapaskan)
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Quasi objects in St'át'imcets
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Agreement, dislocation, and partial configurationality
- Conclusion.
- Notes
- Part II: Interfaces
- Multiple multiple questions
- Final remarks
- Notes
- Attitude evaluation in complex NPs
- Concluding remark
- Notes
- Topic-Focus articulation and degrees of salience in the Prague Dependency Treebank
- Notes
- Word order and discourse genre in Tohono O'odham
- Conclusion
- Notes
- The prosody of interrogative and focus constructions in Navajo
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Subject number agreement, grammaticalization, and transitivity in the Cupeño verb construction
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Lexical irregularity in OT
- Conclusion
- Notes.
- Rapid perceptibility as a factor underlying universals of vowel inventories
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Part III: Foundational issues
- Argument hierarchies and the mapping principle
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Focus movement and the nature of uninterpretable features
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Merge
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Phonotactics and probabilistic ranking
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Deconstructing functionalist explanations of linguistic universals
- Note
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
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