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Elements of Comparative Syntax : Theory and Description /

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Aboh, Enoch, Haeberli, Eric, Puskás, Genoveva, Schönenberger, Manuela
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2017]
Colección:Studies in Generative Grammar SGG ; 127.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Comparative syntax: Focus on one language
  • Labeling (Romance) causatives
  • Quantifier float and predicate inversion
  • Beyond narrative: On the syntax and semantics of ly-Adverbs
  • Ellipsis, polarity, and the cartography of verb-initial orders in Irish
  • Negation and modality: On negative purposive and "avertive" complementizers
  • Are doubly-filled comps governed by prosody in Swiss German? The chameleonic nature of dass 'that'
  • Presentatives and the syntactic encoding of contextual information
  • Part II: Comparative syntax: Cross-linguistic studies
  • On reflexives with an object in French, German, and Gungbe
  • A micro-parameter for allocutive agreement
  • Apposition in English and French
  • Locality and the functional sequence in the left periphery
  • Wh in situ and criterial freezing
  • Germanic verb particle variation
  • Part III: Comparative syntax: Language acquisition and change
  • The loss of Latin OV: Steps towards an analysis
  • Medial NP-adjuncts in English: A diachronic perspective
  • Gothic sai and the Proto-Germanic verb-based discourse particle *se
  • The 3SGS morpheme in child and adult English: A formal analysis
  • Index.