Verb first : on the syntax of verb-initial languages /
This collection of papers brings together the most recent crosslinguistic research on the syntax of verb-initial languages. Authors with a variety of theoretical perspectives pursue the questions of how verb-initial order is derived, and how these derivations play into the characteristic syntax of t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2005.
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Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 73. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Verb First; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; I. VP movement vs. head-movement; What fronts?; Coordination and constituency in St'át'imcets (Lillooet Salish); Two derivations of VSO; Force first; V1 and wh-questions; Preverbal particles in verb-initial languages; A note on predicates and heads in Irish clausal syntax; Seediq; VP-internal structure in a VOS language; II. Categories, information structure, and prosodic factors; Lexical categories, lack of inflection, and predicate fronting in Niuean.