Verb first
Subtitle: on the syntax of verb-initial languages
By: edited by Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley, Shiela Ann Dooley.
Contributors: Carnie, Andrew, 1969-; Dooley-Collberg, Shiela Ann.; Harley, Heidi.
Series: Linguistik aktuell,; v. 73; Linguistik aktuell ;; Bd. 73.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub.; John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Word order.; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb.; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Description: "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 word order derivation, typologists, and those who work on the particular grammars of Celtic, Zapotec, Mixtec, Polynesian, Austronesian, Mayan, Salish, Aboriginal, and Nilotic languages."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.