MIRRORS AND MICROPARAMETERS: PHRASE STRUCTURE BEYOND FREE WORD ORDER

ADGER, DAVID ; HARBOUR, DANIEL ; WATKINS, LAUREL J.

ISBN 10: 0521517567 / ISBN 13: 9780521517560

Verlag: CAMBRIDGE U.P., CAMBRIDGE, 2009

Beschreibung

What is the nature of syntactic structure? Why do some languages have radically free word order (nonconfigurationality)? Do parameters vary independently (the micro-view) or can they co-vary en masse (the macro-view)? Mirrors and Microparameters examines these questions by looking beyond the definitional criterion of nonconfigurationality - that arguments may be freely ordered, omitted, and split. Drawing on data from Kiowa, a member of the largely undescribed Kiowa-Tanoan language family, the book reveals that classically nonconfigurational languages can nonetheless exhibit robustly configurational effects.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: MIRRORS AND MICROPARAMETERS: PHRASE STRUCTURE BEYOND FREE WORD ORDER
• Verlag: CAMBRIDGE U.P., CAMBRIDGE
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0521517567
• ISBN-13: 9780521517560
• Einband: Cartoné (tapa dura cartón)
• Auflage: 01.
• Zustand: New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Nuevo
• Buchtyp: LIBRO
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Inhaltsangabe

This book looks at the nature of free word order and phrase structure, with particular reference to a single endangered language - Kiowa.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Adger is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London. Daniel Harbour is a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London. Laurel J. Watkins is Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics in the Department of Anthropology at Colorado College.