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Main Author: Kayne, Richard S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2010
Series:Oxford studies in comparative syntax
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Some Preliminary Comparative Remarks on French and Italian Definite Articles -- 2. Several, Few and Many -- 3. A Note on the Syntax of Numerical Bases -- 4. On Parameters and on Principles of Pronunciation -- 5. A Short Note on where vs. place -- 6. Expletives, Datives, and the Tension between Morphology and Syntax -- 7. Some Silent First-Person Plurals -- 8. A Note on Auxiliary Alternations and Silent Causation -- 9. Antisymmetry and the Lexicon -- 10. Why Isn't This a Complementizer? -- 11. Toward an Analysis of French Hyper-Complex Inversion / with Jean-Yves Pollock -- Bibliography -- Index
Comparisons and Contrasts collects eleven of Richard Kayne's recent articles in theoretical syntax, with an emphasis on comparative syntax, which uses syntactic differences among languages to probe the properties of the human language faculty. Kayne attaches particular importance to uncovering the primitives of syntax/semantics, demonstrating the existence of silent elements that are syntactically and semantically active, and showing their distribution and limitations. He attempts to derive the very existence of the noun-verb distinction-and to account for the sharp differences between nouns a
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 272 pages)
ISBN:0199732515
019978017X
9780199732517
9780199780174

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