Order and structure in syntax II

Michelle Sheehan

ISBN 10: 3961100292 / ISBN 13: 9783961100293

Verlag: Language Science Press, Language Science Press Jan 2018, 2018

Beschreibung

Neuware -This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using evidence from V2, object shift, word order gaps and different kinds of movement. The second group of papers all address the issue of subjecthood in some way, and examine how certain subject properties vary across languages: expression of subjects, expletive subjects, quirky and locative subjects. All of the papers address in some way the tension between modelling what can vary across languages whilst improving our understanding of what might be universal to human language. This book is complemented by Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structureBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 372 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Order and structure in syntax II
• Verlag: Language Science Press, Language Science Press Jan 2018
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3961100292
• ISBN-13: 9783961100293
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using evidence from V2, object shift, word order gaps and different kinds of movement. The second group of papers all address the issue of subjecthood in some way, and examine how certain subject properties vary across languages: expression of subjects, expletive subjects, quirky and locative subjects. All of the papers address in some way the tension between modelling what can vary across languages whilst improving our understanding of what might be universal to human language. This book is complemented by Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michelle Sheehan is a Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at Anglia Ruskin University. She specialises in comparative and theoretical syntax with a particular focus on Romance languages. She is co-author of Parametric Variation (2010, CUP) and The Philosophy of Universal Grammar (2013, OUP), and co-editor of Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Order (2013, OUP).