The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages

ISBN 10: 0195132238 / ISBN 13: 9780195132236

Verlag: Oxford University Press OUP, 2000

pp. 268. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 262257532

Inhaltsangabe:

This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order. The studies in this volume cover such widely divergent languages as Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Old Irish, Biblical Hebrew, Jakaltek, Mam, Lummi (Straits Salish), Niuean, Malagasy, Palauan, K'echi', and Zapotec, from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including Minimalism, information structure, and sentence processing. The first book to take a crosslinguistic comparative approach to verb initial syntax, this volume provides new data to some old problems and debates and explores some innovative approaches to the derivation of verb initial order.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Andrew Carnie is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. Eithne Guilfoyle is Head of Humanities at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
Verlag: Oxford University Press OUP
Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New