Word Order Matters

Jacek Witkos

ISBN 10: 3631879520 / ISBN 13: 9783631879528

Verlag: Peter Lang AG, CH, 2022

This book contains a selection of papers on issues of current interest in syntax and morpho-syntax. Most topics pertain to the question of the relation between word order and syntactic structure. The discussion starts with a proposal of extending the theory of relativization to reason clauses. It continues with the analysis of the realization of focus in Basque and the discussion of current views on the syntax of cleft constructions. Next, an inquiry into the rigidity of sentence left-periphery is offered in a cross-linguistic perspective. The two final contributions discuss feature-free derivations in syntax applied to a single morpho-syntactic problem, and the question of gradient acceptability of Polish sentences featuring possessive items in the context of the competition between their reflexive and pronominal forms. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9783631879528

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This book contains a selection of papers on issues of current interest in syntax and morpho-syntax. Most topics pertain to the question of the relation between word order and syntactic structure. The discussion starts with a proposal of extending the theory of relativization to reason clauses. It continues with the analysis of the realization of focus in Basque and the discussion of current views on the syntax of cleft constructions. Next, an inquiry into the rigidity of sentence left-periphery is offered in a cross-linguistic perspective. The two final contributions discuss feature-free derivations in syntax applied to a single morpho-syntactic problem, and the question of gradient acceptability of Polish sentences featuring possessive items in the context of the competition between their reflexive and pronominal forms.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Przemysław Tajsner is professor of linguistics at the Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU), Poznañ, Poland. His major research area is the interface of information structure and syntax, but his interests extend to comparative linguistics, minimalist syntax and biolinguistics. Jacek Witkoś is a professor of linguistics at AMU, with a record of research in English/Polish comparative morpho-syntax from the generative and minimalist perspective. He has published on a variety of topics, including wh-movement and its reconstruction, negation, control, reflexives and distribution and properties of pronouns.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Word Order Matters
Verlag: Peter Lang AG, CH
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Einband: Hardback
Zustand: New