Finiteness : theoretical and empirical foundations /
This book explores the nature of finiteness, clarifying what it is and establishing its usefulness and limitations. Leading scholars look from a range of perspectives at how finiteness is conceived in formal and functional theories of grammar; at its cross-linguistic manifestations; at the finite/no...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Colección: | Oxford linguistics.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Three domains of finiteness : a Minimalist perspective / David Adger
- Finiteness in non-transformational syntactic frameworks / Peter Sells
- Deconstructing finiteness : finiteness in a functional-typological perspective / Sonia Cristofaro
- Categories that make finiteness : discreteness from a functional perspective and some of its repercussions / Walter Bisang
- Constructional economy and nonfinite independent clauses / Irina Nikolaeva
- Clause structure and verbal forms in Nakh-Daghestanian languages / Elena Kalinina and Nina Sumbatova
- In what ways can finite and nonfinite clauses differ? Evidence from Russian / David M. Perlmutter
- Verbal and nominalized finite clauses in Turkish / Jaklin Kornfilt
- Diachrony and finiteness : subordination in the dialects of southern Italy / Adam Ledgeway
- Insubordination and its uses / Nicholas Evans
- Finiteness in first and second language acquisition / Petra Gretsch and Clive Perdue.