The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages

The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9780198030294
ISBN-13 : 0198030290
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Book Synopsis The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages by : Andrew Carnie

Download or read book The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages written by Andrew Carnie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 cross-linguistic 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.


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