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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Carnie, Andrew, 1969-, Harley, Heidi, Willie, MaryAnn, Jelinek, Eloise
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2003.
Colección:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 62.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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
  • Current issues in the series LINGUISTIK AKTUELL/LINGUISTICS TODAY.