Verb first: on the syntax of verb-initial languages
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. ©2005
Series:Linguistik aktuell Bd. 73
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Verb First; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; I. VP movement vs. head-movement; What fronts?; Coordination and constituency in St'át'imcets (Lillooet Salish); Two derivations of VSO; Force first; V1 and wh-questions; Preverbal particles in verb-initial languages; A note on predicates and heads in Irish clausal syntax; Seediq; VP-internal structure in a VOS language; II. Categories, information structure, and prosodic factors; Lexical categories, lack of inflection, and predicate fronting in Niuean
This collection of papers brings together the most recent crosslinguistic research on the syntax of verb-initial languages. Authors with a variety of theoretical perspectives pursue the questions of how verb-initial order is derived, and how these derivations play into the characteristic syntax of these languages. Major themes in the volume include the role of syntactic category in languages with verb-initial order; the different mechanisms of deriving V-initial order; and the universal correlates of the order. This book should be of interest to scholars who work on theoretical approaches to w
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 431 pages)
ISBN:1588116107
9027227977
9027294755
9781588116109
9789027227973
9789027294753

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