Studies on universal grammar and typological variation
By: edited by Artemis Alexiadou, T. Alan Hall.
Contributors: Alexiadou, Artemis.; Hall, T. Alan.
Series: Linguistik aktuell =; Linguistics today ;; v. 13; Linguistik aktuell ;; Bd. 13.
Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Congresses.; Typology (Linguistics) -- Congresses.
Description: viii, 252 p. : 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at a conference which was held Mar. 1994, Forschungsschwerpunkt Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Ger.
Table of contents: title: Typological implications of a directionality constraint on projections / Hubert Haider; title: Universal grammar and the typology of ergative languages / Anoop Mahajan; title: Some properties of ellipsis in coordination / Chris Wilder; title: Deriving the parameterisation of the mapping hypothesis / David Adger; title: Syntactic dependencies and their properties : weak islands / M. Rita Manzini; title: On extraction, argument binding, and voice morphology in Malagasy / Paul Law; title: Universals and minimalist features : checking in AgrO / Elly van Gelderen; title: Genitive subjects and the VSO order / Jamal Ouhalla; title: Some properties of clitics : with special reference to modern Greek / Gaberell Drachman.